599 private quotes tagged courage

“Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.” — Bob Richards

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“How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.” — Anna Held

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“You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.” — George Konrad

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“With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.” — Dan Lipinski

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“I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.” — Tadao Ando

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“Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.” — Kevin Rudd

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“You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.” — Paul Robeson

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“I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.” — Lee Myung-bak

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“War is fear cloaked in courage.” — William Westmoreland

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“Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.” — Juan Ruiz

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“Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.” — William Hurt

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“The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.” — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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“Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.” — Gerry Adams

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“Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.” — Anna Akhmatova

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“Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.” — Arthur Koestler

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“To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.” — Janeane Garofalo

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“A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.” — Ann Bancroft

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“Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.” — Emile Hirsch

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“When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.” — Kirstie Alley

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“The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.” — Carson Daly

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“Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.” — Kenneth L. Pike

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“Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.” — Julia Cameron

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“You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.” — Kenny Loggins

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“Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.” — Charles Kennedy

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“An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.” — Joseph Pulitzer

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