Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Arc

Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames!

Edgar Guest

There is an education of the mind / Which all require and parents only start. / But there is training of a nobler kind / And that's the education of the heart. / Lessons that are most difficult to give / Are Faith and Courage and the way to live.

Henri Frederic Amiel

We must have the courage to be happy

Oscar Wilde

There are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to

Q-Tip

I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

Jane Fonda

I was always a courageous woman, capable of confronting governments but not men.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Anne Lamott

If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.

Amelia Earhart

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

Annie Dillard

You can't test courage cautiously.

D. H. Lawrence

The great home of the soul is the open road.

D. H. Lawrence

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Alexander Pope

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

E. M. Forster

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Douglas MacArthur

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

Don DeLillo

You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.

Douglas Adams

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

Duke of Wellington

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

Dorothy Day

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

Donald O'Connor

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

Anais Nin

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Anne Frank

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

Anita Roddick

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

Andrew Young

The man with courage is a majority.

Christopher Paolini

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Morley

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Anne Bronte

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

Don Young

Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.

Colin Powell

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

Daniel Quinn

Courage is the virtue of the free.

If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.

Anne Sexton

It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.

Andre Norton

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.