599 private quotes tagged courage

“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”— Harry S. Truman

“Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”— Plutarch

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.”— Hubert H. Humphrey

“Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.”— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”— George S. Patton

“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.”— George Bernard Shaw

“A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”— George Bernard Shaw

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”— Thomas Carlyle

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”— Marilyn Monroe

“Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.”— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.”— Thomas S. Monson

“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.”— Michelle Obama

“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”— Charlie Chaplin

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.”— Alan Cohen

“He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.”— B. C. Forbes

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”— Orison Swett Marden

“Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.”— Bryant H. McGill

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.”— Denis Waitley

“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

“The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.”— Carl Lewis