Famous Quotes

"Life is to be entered upon with courage."

Alexis de Tocqueville on Courage

More quotes about Courage

• "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

  Steve Jobs on Courage

• "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Courage

• "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

  Nelson Mandela on Courage

• "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

  Winston Churchill on Courage

• "There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."

  Ronald Reagan on Courage

More quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville

• "Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves."

• "We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."

• "The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality."

• "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."

• "Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."