Courage Quotes
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What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
Dan Rather
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Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben-Gurion
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What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
William Shakespeare
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Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.
David Whyte
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I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do.
Faith Hill
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Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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Tous nous serions transformés si nous avions le courage d'être ce que nous sommes.
Marguerite Yourcenar
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People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
Iris Apfel
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The subject matter ranges from subtle forms of intellectual sarcasm and humor to the crudest possible attacks on a person's courage, sexual prowess, or relatives. At one level, attacks may be subtle and indirect, involving allusion and figurative speech; at another, there may be explicit taunts, boasts, name calling, and jokes at the other's expense.
David Crystal
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Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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I can only stick my neck out and offer my humble beliefs. If I become an outsider by doing so, this won't be a great hardship as I've been that as far back as I can remember - something strange and unacceptable in the eyes of those who believe they see straight. At least it's given me courage of a kind, which I'd like every Australian to acquire.
Patrick White
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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Jim Hightower
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What I hope my writing reflects... is a sense of the connections between all human beings... and a different perspective on the true nature of courage. For me, those are things worth exploring and writing about.
Chris Crutcher
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People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
John Steinbeck
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The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
Mary Renault
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If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.
Norma Deloris Egstrom
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Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all.
Billy Crystal
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A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.
Arthur Powell Davies
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I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.
Mary Tyler Moore
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Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.
Bill Vaughan
