599 private quotes tagged courage

“A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.”— Les Brown

“The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.”— Thucydides

“Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.”— Marlene Dietrich

“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.”— Sydney Smith

“I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.”— Loretta Young

“If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.”— Doug Coupland

“Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.”— Dennis Prager

“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.”— Tori Amos

“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”— Harper Lee

“Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.”— John Wayne

“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”— Reinhold Niebuhr

“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.”— Karl Von Clausewitz

“One man with courage makes a majority.”— Andrew Jackson

“Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”— Mary Tyler Moore

“There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.”— Orison Swett Marden

“The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.”— Jim Hightower

“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

“Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.”— Margaret J. Wheatley

“A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.”— Suze Orman

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”— E. F. Schumacher

“And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.”— Michelle Obama

“It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.”— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.”— Elizabeth Taylor

“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... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.”— Helen Hayes

“Life is to be entered upon with courage.”— Alexis de Tocqueville