Quotes with courage

Quotes 121 till 140 of 337.

  • Marquis de Sade Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson 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.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Plautus Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • George Robert Gissing Have the courage of your desire.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Sydney Smith Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Voltaire He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • B. C. Forbes 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
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Ben Horowitz Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Andrew Johnson Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Barack Obama Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.
    Iowa Caucus Speech (3 jan 2008)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
    Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Anna Held How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • August Strindberg I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Jesse Owens I always loved running - it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • Burgess Owens I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Nelson Mandela I have learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. A brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
    Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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