Famous Quotes

"Genius is talent set on fire by courage."

Henry Van Dyke 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 Henry Van Dyke

• "Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

• "Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest."

• "It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."

• "Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why."

• "Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live."