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Famous Quotes
- There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.
- Bill Hunter on Courage
- There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
- David Letterman on Courage
- There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.
- Tony Randall on Courage
- Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.
- Elias Hicks on Courage
- 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.
- Major Taylor on Courage
- 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.
- Donald O'Connor on Courage
- 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.
- Virginia Woolf on Courage
- Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.
- Emily Greene Balch on Courage
- Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
- Albert Camus on Courage
- Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis on Courage
- Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.
- Michael D. Higgins on Courage
- Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
- John M. McHugh on Courage
- Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
- Carol P. Christ on Courage
- Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
- Jesse Jackson on Courage
- To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
- Stephen Baker on Courage
- To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
- Georgia O'Keeffe on Courage
- To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Courage
- To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.
- Dale Murphy on Courage
- To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
- Saint Teresa Of Avila on Courage
- To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
- Coventry Patmore on Courage
- To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
- Henri Frederic Amiel on Courage
- To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
- Janeane Garofalo on Courage
- To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
- To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
- Kong Fu Zi on Courage
- To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
- George Crabbe on Courage
- Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
- George W. Bush on Courage
- Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.
- Rahm Emanuel on Courage
- Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
- Laura Linney on Courage
- True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
- Jeremy Collier on Courage
- True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
- Norman Schwarzkopf on Courage
- True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.
- John Petit-Senn on Courage
- True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead on Courage
- TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
- Sharon Stone on Courage
- Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
- Karl Von Clausewitz on Courage
- Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
- Lillian Hellman on Courage
- Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
- John Steinbeck on Courage
- Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
- Jean Anouilh on Courage
- Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
- George S. Patton on Courage
- Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
- Michel De Montaigne on Courage
- Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
- Laura Schlessinger on Courage
- Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
- Thomas A Kempis on Courage
- War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
- Benito Mussolini on Courage
- War is fear cloaked in courage.
- William Westmoreland on Courage
- War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
- Alexander Berkman on Courage
- Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.
- Ron Fournier on Courage
- Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
- We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
- Jonathan Sacks on Courage
- We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
- Muammar Al-Gaddafi on Courage
- We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
- William Hazlitt on Courage
- We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
- Eleanor Roosevelt on Courage
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