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“And the star-spangled banner, oh long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!”
F. S. Key (1779–1843) said by 1843 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must when our cause it is just, And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
F. S. Key (1779–1843) said by 1843 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Brave men were living before Agamemnon.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
Also quoted by: Horace
“How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.”
Thomas B. Macaulay (1800–1859) said by 1859 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) said by 1891 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Fortune helps the brave.”
Terence (185–159 BC) said by 159 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Only in his poetry did he have the courage to love.”
Peter Weiss (1916–1982) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dante (written 1963, published 2003)
“As for King Hussein of Jordan, I cannot praise him enough. He is not only a friend, but a brother. His qualities as a man and his goodness of heart are enhanced by great courage and a true love of his country.”
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear exists to glorify courage. A timid man exists to glorify a courageous man. There will be no value for goodness if badness does not exist. One side of a thing cannot have significance without the existence of the other side. Hence everything in this world has two sides. Dvandvas exist to keep up the flow of the world.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man of courage does not tremble in the hour of danger. He is not embarrassed and bewildered. He does not sink down. He is not overwhelmed by despair... He smiles away all dangers and difficulties, blows the trumpet of triumph and attains victory in the end.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Take, then, the life of perfect men like Bhishma and think of their deeds and their life and ideals. Your life will be filled by purity, courage, etc. You will become a noble, perfect man. The thought will transform you into its own likeness. Man becomes like what he worships. Man becomes like what he thinks. This is indeed true.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Take refuge in Lord, in His name and grace. All fears will vanish completely. He will bestow strength, fortitude, courage, presence of mind, etc., in you.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these are ever the distinguishing characteristics of the soldier and sailor. Building character through intelligent training and education is always the first and greatest goal.”
Erich Raeder (1876–1960) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "He Led Hitler's Navy," "New York Times" article, April 24, 1960.
“Courage, brother! do not stumble, Though thy path be dark as night; There’s a star to guide the humble, Trust in God and do the Right.”
Norman MacLeod (1812–1872) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trust in God, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“My favourite musician happens to be the same as Shakespeare's: John Dowland. His songs are sorrowful but heal the soul by their sweetness and courage.”
John Dowland (1563–1626) said by 1626 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert Graves, letter to Idries Shah, September 6, 1968; published in Between Moon and Moon: Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1946-1972, (1984), p. 272.
“Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.”
Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer (2000), p. 176
“Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbour, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.”
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Variant: Many quoters, including Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919), have "in our own" instead of "in your own".
“Far from being lambs led to the slaughter, Israel’s soldiers have fought back with incredible courage and with heroic sacrifice. And I have another message for this assembly and for the world outside this hall: We are winning.”
Benjamin Netanyahu (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tr. E. Lee (1903) pp. 180-181
“These [traits] are first: love, love for his people, love for the working masses...Second, honesty...Third, courage...Fourth, comradely solidarity...Fifth, love for labor. Not only love but an honest attitude to labor, firmly bearing in mind that if a man lives, eats and does not work, this means that he eats someone else's labor.”
Mikhail Kalinin (1875–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gentlemen, if ever a generation will come after us which is so weak and soft-hearted that it doesn't understand our task, then indeed the whole of National Socialism has been in vain. To the contrary, in my opinion one should bury bronze plates on which it is recorded that we have had the courage to carry out this great and so necessary work.”
Odilo Globocnik (1904–1945) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Kurt Gerstein, 17 August 1942. Quoted in "God, Greed, and Genocide: The Holocaust through the Centuries" - Page 101 - by Arthur Grenke - 2005.
“Each time I spoke, I gained a little courage. It took a long while—but today I have more happiness than I ever dreamed possible. In rearing my own children, I have always taught them the lesson I had to learn from such bitter experience: No matter what happens, always be yourself!”
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I agree with Paul that love is more important than faith and hope; but so are honesty, integrity, and moral courage. The world needs less faith and more love and nobility.”
Walter Kaufmann (philosopher) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.”
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934–2012) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Pocket Patriot : Quotes from American Heroes (2005) by Kelly Nickell, p. 53
“One cannot fight an enemy if one does not even have the courage to identify him.”
David Lane (white nationalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To Wotanists, the Gods and Goddesses with names such as Wotan or Woden, Thor, Frigga and Sif represent forces of Nature, fertility and noble ancestors. They provide linkage between the past, present and future. Their deeds are parables which teach courage and other Aryan virtues. Even a treacherous God like Loki teaches a lesson in the dangers from internal subversion.”
David Lane (white nationalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Votes, constitutions, divine salvation, and other solutions are the pipe dreams of cowards or the honey coated deceptions of enemy agents. A people without the courage or integrity to identify their executioners, or their executioners’ institutions, are doomed to extinction.”
David Lane (white nationalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How Putin must have hated him. Navalny was the tsar of charisma, courage and connecting with people; Putin the tsar of the knout, the cosh and the hypodermic syringe.”
John Sweeney (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One's emotional state is always determined by the oddest and most accidental things, and it is precisely the most superficial factors that often fortify or diminish our courage.”
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes when a man is dying, he directs that his body shall be given to doctors, so that the causes of his suffering and death may be investigated, and the knowledge used to help others. I cannot give my body yet; only my heart and my mind, trusting that by this gift I can give some hope and courage to other men like myself, and to the rest of the world some understanding.”
Peter Wildeblood (1923–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely. All the idiots that keep coming into the world and wrecking people's lives. And it is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage, okay? That you lose hope — I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day — I'm pretty good — I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk. But, I'm losing hope.”
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Churchill must not forget that the Italians have nothing more to lose and they possess a courage of despair.”
Alessandro Pavolini (1903–1945) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "New Invasion Fear In Italy Reported" - "New York Times" article - June 3, 1943.
“You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only of principaly [sic] from human relation[ships]. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.”
Christopher McCandless (1968–1992) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992
“We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans.”
Sarah Palin (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Know that coyness has a certain extent and if exceeded, shall turn to weakness; generosity has a certain extent and if exceeded, shall become wasting; economy has a certain extent and if exceeded, shall be stinginess; and courage has a certain extent, which if exceeded, becomes recklessness.”
Hasan al-Askari (845–874) said by 874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On est heureux par soi-même quand on sait s'y prendre, avoir des goûts simples, un certain courage, une certaine abnégation, l'amour du travail et avant tout une bonne conscience.”
George Sand (1804–1876) first seen 1866 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Charles Poney, (16 November 1866), published in Georges Lubin (ed.) Correspondance (Paris: Garnier Freres, 1964-95) vol. 20, p. 188; André Maurois (trans. Gerard Hopkins) Lélia: The Life of George Sand (New Yo…
“Up till now," I said to myself, "there's been something too personal about his ambition, which portrayed the future in the light of egotism. Now that he's in love, his soul will open to ideas that are more ample, truer, more generous. Devotion will reveal itself to him, and with devotion, the need and the courage to work." (chapter 13)”
George Sand (1804–1876) said by 1876 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sit beside my lonely fire And pray for wisdom yet: For calmness to remember Or courage to forget.”
Charles Hamilton Aide (1826–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remember or Forget, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.”
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He has a clear style and has had much courage – as in his poem "Babi Yar", a memorial to the Jews murdered by the Nazis. But he is no more than a talented poetaster – which is quite obvious to all but Western journalists – and it would be foolish to consider him as more than a skilful publicist.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933–2017) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Martin Seymour-Smith, Guide to Modern World Literature (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975) vol. 4, pp. 240-1.
“You can't have thought without emotion, and one emotion is fear, and making an important decision on the basis of fear is not a good idea. So develop your courage.”
Ursula Goodenough (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality.”
Billy Graham (1918–2018) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Time for Moral Courage", Reader’s Digest (July 1964)
“We are now committed to an unqualified art, not illustrating outworn myths or contemporary alibis. One must accept total responsibility for what he executes. And the measure of his greatness will be in the depth of his insight and his courage in realizing his own vision.”
Clyfford Still (1904–1980) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Dorothy Miller February 5, 1952; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics, edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York 1990, p. 193
“I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.”
Georg Büchner (1813–1837) said by 1837 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Presented this 8th day of December 2018 in Washington by admirers of the example set by the late CIA analyst, Sam Adams. Know all ye by these presents that Karen Kwiatkowski is hereby honored with the traditional Sam Adams Corner-Brightener Candlestick Holder, in symbolic recognition of her courage in shining light into dark places.”
Karen Kwiatkowski (born 1960) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Karen Kwiatkowski Gets 2018 Sam Adams Award: Citation and Her Acceptance Speech, Consortium News, Full text online (9 December 2018)
“Rien n'est plus capable d'inspirer du courage à une femme que l'intrépidité d'un homme qu'elle aime.”
Antoine François Prévost (1697–1763) said by 1763 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing progresses more rapidly in a heart set upon doing good than an ability to be useful. They who at first are timid, shy, awkward, in such efforts, soon acquire courage, expertness, and efficiency.”
John Angell James (1785–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source