599 private quotes tagged courage

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.” — Rollo May

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“Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” — John Quincy Adams

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“Courage without conscience is a wild beast.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.” — Noel Coward

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“It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.” — Horace

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“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” — Earl Nightingale

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“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.” — Georgia O'Keeffe

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“Genius is talent set on fire by courage.” — Henry Van Dyke

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“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” — Gloria Steinem

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“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.” — E. M. Forster

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“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.” — Erica Jong

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“To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.” — Euripides

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“Political courage is not political suicide.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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“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

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“Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid a coward knows when you are not.” — David Seabury

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“Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the b-----d.” — John Steinbeck

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“Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.” — Karl Von Clausewitz

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“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.” — John Stuart Mill

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“I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.” — Catherine the Great

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“I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.” — King Abdullah II

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“Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.” — Howard Cosell

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“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.” — Miguel de Cervantes

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