Top courage Quotes Collection - Page 5

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Image of Lou Gehrig
When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.
- Lou Gehrig
Collection: Courage
Image of Scott Hamilton
Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
- Scott Hamilton
Collection: Courage
Image of Gore Vidal
My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'
- Gore Vidal
Collection: Courage
Image of Theodore Roosevelt
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Collection: Courage
Image of Zoe Saldana
It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
- Zoe Saldana
Collection: Courage
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Collection: Courage
Image of Nicholas M. Butler
Necessity does the work of courage.
- Nicholas M. Butler
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Image of Dale Carnegie
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
- Dale Carnegie
Collection: Courage
Image of Henry Van Dyke
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
- Henry Van Dyke
Collection: Courage
Image of Anais Nin
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.
- Anais Nin
Collection: Courage
Image of Tracy K. Smith
I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current that runs through all that is. Not by will or by choice. Not as a benediction but because there are laws even God must obey.
- Tracy K. Smith
Collection: Courage
Image of Heidi Hammel
Amid apocalyptic dystopia, 'Fahrenheit 451''s protagonist retains sparks of curiosity, creativity, and courage, and these human characteristics are the seeds of hope that can arise, phoenix-like, from civilization's ashes.
- Heidi Hammel
Collection: Courage
Image of Erma Bombeck
I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
- Erma Bombeck
Collection: Courage
Image of Logan Pearsall Smith
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Collection: Courage
Image of Carl von Clausewitz
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
- Carl von Clausewitz
Collection: Courage
Image of Pierre Corneille
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
- Pierre Corneille
Collection: Courage
Image of Xi Jinping
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
- Xi Jinping
Collection: Courage
Image of Jean Anouilh
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
- Jean Anouilh
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Image of Billy Graham
Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
- Billy Graham
Collection: Courage
Image of Maya Angelou
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'
- Maya Angelou
Collection: Courage
Image of Ayanna Pressley
If you look at the Affordable Care Act, ultimately that was saved not solely by lawmakers but because of the courage of individuals and families who went to Washington, who organized, who mobilized and said 'We're not turning around.'
- Ayanna Pressley
Collection: Courage
Image of William J. H. Boetcker
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Collection: Courage
Image of Elizabeth Taylor
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
- Elizabeth Taylor
Collection: Courage
Image of Barbara De Angelis
We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
- Barbara De Angelis
Collection: Courage
Image of Thomas J. Stanley
Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.
- Thomas J. Stanley
Collection: Courage
Image of Bill Hybels
It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.
- Bill Hybels
Collection: Courage
Image of Winnie Harlow
I learned to love who I am despite what anyone would say about or to me. This gave me the courage to really stand up to anyone or any obstacle in my life.
- Winnie Harlow
Collection: Courage
Image of Jenna Jameson
My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.
- Jenna Jameson
Collection: Courage
Image of Ed Koch
No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
- Ed Koch
Collection: Courage
Image of Meghan Markle
Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.
- Meghan Markle
Collection: Courage
Image of Georg Buchner
I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
- Georg Buchner
Collection: Courage
Image of John Slattery
I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.
- John Slattery
Collection: Courage
Image of Alexandre Vinet
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
- Alexandre Vinet
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Image of Donald O'Connor
They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.
- Donald O'Connor
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Image of Patrick Lencioni
Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.
- Patrick Lencioni
Collection: Courage
Image of Madeleine M. Kunin
I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.
- Madeleine M. Kunin
Collection: Courage
Image of Ai Weiwei
The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.
- Ai Weiwei
Collection: Courage
Image of Eddie Albert
Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.
- Eddie Albert
Collection: Courage
Image of John Ciardi
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
- John Ciardi
Collection: Courage
Image of Mary Gordon
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
- Mary Gordon
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Image of Branch Rickey
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
- Branch Rickey
Collection: Courage
Image of Helen Slater
It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.
- Helen Slater
Collection: Courage
Image of Monica Ali
I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.
- Monica Ali
Collection: Courage
Image of Glennon Doyle Melton
Sometimes the rewards of risk don't leave us wrecked. Sometimes we find our passion, our purpose, courage, connection, and comfort. Every good thing in our lives is a direct result of risk.
- Glennon Doyle Melton
Collection: Courage
Image of George Gissing
Have the courage of your desire.
- George Gissing
Collection: Courage
Image of Kirk Cameron
If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window.
- Kirk Cameron
Collection: Courage
Image of Kerry Washington
That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
- Kerry Washington
Collection: Courage
Image of Jill Biden
Most women I know have been harassed in some way. And you never wanted to report it, because you were afraid of losing your job or you felt like, hey, did that just happen? I think it's good that women now... have the courage! Because it's not easy.
- Jill Biden
Collection: Courage