Courage Quotes - page 12

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. (Helen Hayes)
That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe! View quote
Friedrich Schiller
And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect, nothing is, and no one is - and that's OK. View quote
Katie Couric
I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and the courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words. View quote
Gloria Steinem
...I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes. View quote
Mary Renault
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it. View quote
Erica Jong
The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it-well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
Fear is the root of all courage. (Vivian Stanshall)
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Political courage is not political suicide. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. View quote
Dean Koontz
You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. View quote
Vittorio Alfieri
The courage to receive time's mightiest dream. View quote
E. E. Cummings
Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined. View quote
Leo Rosten
For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May. View quote
Thomas Malory
I must honor those who fight of their own free willl, he said to himself. And I must try to imitate their courage by following my path as a pacifist, wherever it takes me. (Christopher Isherwood)
In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'. View quote
Alain Badiou
What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us - what convictions, what courage, what faith - win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
It takes courage... to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. View quote
Marianne Williamson
Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important. View quote
Stephen Covey