Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Saint Francis de Sales

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.

Saint Francis de Sales

It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping.

Winston Churchill

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Rudyard Kipling

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

W. Clement Stone

Have the courage to face the truth

W. E. B. Du Bois

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Zora Neale Hurston

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Samuel Rutherford

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

Samuel Rutherford

My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.

Samuel Johnson

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Virgil

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Virginia Woolf

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Wallis Simpson

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

Wilferd Peterson

Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm.

Wilferd Peterson

Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.

Walter Lord

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Voltaire

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

William C. Bryant

Ah, never shall the land forget How gush'd the life-blood of the brave, Gush'd warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save!

Walter Russell

When one trusts this inner universal power, it automatically draws forth the trust of the people one deals with.

Walter Scott

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Walter Scott

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

Walter Scott

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.

Walter Scott

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Winston Churchill

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

Winston Churchill

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

Winston Churchill

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

Winston Churchill

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

William Manchester

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

Sara Blakely

Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person.