Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Dworkin

No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.

Aesop

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Simon Van Booy

The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.

A. A. Milne

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

Aeschylus

Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

Agatha Christie

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

Abraham Lincoln

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

Estelle

You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.

Eddie Marsan

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

Mary Tyler Moore

I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

We are not going to surrender. We are going to face our destiny with courage.

John Bunyan

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

Alan Cohen

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.

Alan Cohen

There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Meghan Markle

Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

We need to fight them like you would fight a bully. But it takes a lot of courage, and very few people want to go through the bother.

Silvio Berlusconi

Pain is at this time a feeling shared by the entire nation. But we also feel pride for the courage and humanity with which our troops ... have worked and still work to make the situation tolerable for children, women, the elderly and the weak who live in that martyred region.

Our team really stepped up tonight and showed a lot courage to take it to them like that.

Winston Churchill

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.

Charles Rangel

Some of you know I've been reported as saying Eliot Spitzer is one of the smartest people in the world, if not the smartest. It takes a lot of political courage to reach out and make an independent decision.

Michel Platini

Nancy can revel in the celebration of the cup. It is a team that has played with courage from the beginning.

My husband showed them that they had to show courage. I don't know to this day how he managed to get through that camp, especially to have to get up on those machines.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything

I sang as one / Who on a tilting deck sings / To keep men's courage up, though the wave hangs / That shall cut off their sun.

Oscar Wilde

I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

I think we showed a lot of courage down the stretch.

Julianne Moore

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant.

John Burns

Remember the match girls who won their strike and formed a union; take courage from the gas stokers who only a few weeks ago won the eight hour day.

Grover Cleveland

Party honesty is party duty, and party courage is party expediency.

Anthony Romero

Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.

Jeb Bush

I am grateful to Glenda for stepping up to provide strong, courageous leadership for our state,

But for those on the right, ... McCarthy fought the good fight. He was courageous when others wouldn't do it.