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Mary Wesley on courage
Author: Mary Wesley“Women’s courage is rather different from men’s. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.” -Mary Wesley
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Stanley Baldwin on courage
Author: Stanley Baldwin“A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months’ experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time – patience.” -Stanley Baldwin
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King Abdullah II on courage
Author: King Abdullah II“Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.” -King Abdullah II
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Aung San Suu Kyi on courage
Author: Aung San Suu Kyi“I don’t understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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Liz Phair on courage
Author: Liz Phair“You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.” -Liz Phair
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Lillian Hellman on courage
Author: Lillian Hellman“Unjust. How many times I’ve used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don’t have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.” -Lillian Hellman
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John Ciardi on courage
Author: 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
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Michael Kinsley on courage
Author: Michael Kinsley“He’s nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one’s nastiness does not make one nice.” -Michael Kinsley
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George A. Sheehan on courage
Author: George A. Sheehan“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” -George A. Sheehan
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Stephen Leacock on courage
Author: Stephen Leacock“It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.” -Stephen Leacock
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Thomas a Kempis on courage
Author: Thomas a Kempis“Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.” -Thomas a Kempis
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Rand Paul on courage
Author: Rand Paul“What I’ve always said is that I’m opposed to institutional racism, and I would’ve, had I’ve been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.” -Rand Paul
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Margaret Mitchell on courage
Author: Margaret Mitchell“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.” -Margaret Mitchell
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Carl Friedrich Gauss on courage
Author: Carl Friedrich Gauss“The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.” -Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Dick Cheney on courage
Author: Dick Cheney“It’s not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We’ve gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it’s a – very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so
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Logan P. Smith on courage
Author: Logan P. Smith“What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?” -Logan P. Smith
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Sun Myung Moon on courage
Author: Sun Myung Moon“A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn’t have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.” -Sun Myung Moon
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Lech Walesa on courage
Author: Lech Walesa“Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.” -Lech Walesa
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Dean Koontz on courage
Author: Dean Koontz“Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.” -Dean Koontz
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Daisaku Ikeda on courage
Author: Daisaku Ikeda“There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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David Viscott on courage
Author: David Viscott“If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.” -David Viscott
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Tom Brown, Jr. on courage
Author: Tom Brown, Jr.“We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.” -Tom Brown, Jr.
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Earl Wilson on courage
Author: Earl Wilson“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.” -Earl Wilson
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Jonathan Sacks on courage
Author: Jonathan Sacks“We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.” -Jonathan Sacks
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William J. H. Boetcker on courage
Author: William J. H. Boetcker“You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence.” -William J. H. Boetcker