Famous Quotes & Sayings

John F. Kennedy

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

John F. Kennedy

The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people - faith that the people will not simply elect men who will represent their views ably and faithfully, but will also elect men who will exercise their conscientious judgment - faith that the people will not condemn those whose devotion to principle leads them to unpopular courses, but will reward courage, respect honor, and ultimately recognize right.

John F. Kennedy

For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, "hold office"; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

Jonathan Kozol

I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I feel eating an $80 lunch with my privileged friends to discuss hunger and poverty. That's when my soul feels imperiled.

James M. Barrie

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

Eric Sevareid

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

John Donne

Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

John Milton

All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

Joan Miro

I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

Francois Fenelon

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

Livy

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

Lynda Obst

nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.

Loretta Young

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

Major Taylor

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

Mahatma Gandhi

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Mahatma Gandhi

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Madame de Stael

Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color....

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

John Cage

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

Emily Dickinson

If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve

Elmer Davis

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Ellis Peters

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Edward Weston

Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.

Theodore Roosevelt

The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

Henry Van Dyke

The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.

Henry Van Dyke

Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.

Henry Van Dyke

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Henri Matisse

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.