Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Courage conquers all things.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I' That's where courage comes in.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Courage mounteth with occasion.

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood -- a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.