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“She has turned her face, more than once, to the Outer Radiance and simply seen nothing there. And so each time taken a little more of the Zero into herself. It comes down to courage, at worst an amount of self-deluding that's vanishingly small: he has to admire it, even if he can't accept her glassy wastes, her appeals to a day not of wrath but of final indifference....”
Thomas Pynchon (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Corruption undermines public confidence in our country and institutions. It is a huge cost to the economy. Combating it will take courage, determination and perseverance. The most effective means of doing it is by creating a climate not receptive to corruption.”
Joni Madraiwiwi (1957–2016) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to Transparency International Fiji book launch, 9 December 2005.
“Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability, and I want you to know that we are with you, hatta al-nasr, hatta al-nasr, hatta al-Quds until victory, until victory, until Jerusalem.”
George Galloway (born 1954) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "George and his dragons" The Herald (Glasgow) (28 September 2007), an excerpt from David Morley's Gorgeous George: The Life and Adventures of George Galloway, London: Politico's, 2007. This source also states …
“So I say to you, citizens of the last Arab country, this is a time for courage, for unity, for wisdom, for determination, to face these enemies with the dignity your president has shown, and I believe, God willing, we will prevail and triumph, wa-salam aleikum.”
George Galloway (born 1954) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a lecture at the University of Damascus, as broadcast by Al-Jazeera TV (13 November 2005).
“Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) first seen 1841 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Reverend William Henry Channing (21 February 1841) quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 112
“I take courage, however, in the fact that the conservation effort has a broader base than ever before. There is more organized effort; there are many more individuals who are conscious of conservation problems and who are striving, in their own communities or on the national scene, to solve these problems.”
Rachel Carson (1907–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Moral courage means to defy the crowd, to stand up as a solitary individual, to shun the intoxicating embrace of comradeship, and to be disobedient to authority, even at the risk of your life, for a higher principle.”
Chris Hedges (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.”
Robert Crumb (born 1943) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Simon Hattenston talks to Robert Crumb", The Guardian, 7 March 2005.
“Originally, everything I wrote I wanted to perform, to flesh it out, and I didn't have the courage just to let people read and make their own decisions. I had to do that with this. And some of the stuff people really did wonderfully. Pru Scales did a monologue and just transformed it in my eyes — I thought it was rather ordinary and she made it into something really terrific.”
Emma Thompson (born 1959) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview, as cited in "Emma inher own write", The Guardian (8 June 1988), p. 27
“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 (1906–2001) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Corliss Lamont on her engagement (1928)
“Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you leap from a cliff, it is too late for anything but holding to your courage. And hoping there's a haywain at the bottom to land in.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Predawn has always been undervalued as a witching hour, she thought. Midnight, in prose and poem, had gotten all the glory. At this hour, though, people had to gather their lonely, enervated willpower and make the first choices of the day. For that you needed raw courage.”
Gillian Anderson (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I give kudos to them for having the courage to bring me here... The risk is, I'm not the status quo.”
Jesse Ventura (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.”
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Optimism is true moral courage.”
Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922) said by 1922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in South with Shackleton (1949) by L. D. A. Hussey; also in The National Geographic Magazine (1998), Vol. 194, p. 90
“Clothe yourself with a hero’s courage, and withdraw for a little space from the opinions of the common man. Form a proper conception of the image of virtue, a thing of exceeding beauty and grandeur; this image is not to be worshipped by us with incense or garlands, but with sweat and blood.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.”
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) said by 1954 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Artist to Artist : Inspiration and Advice from Visual Artists Past & Present (1998), p. 62
“Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.”
Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800) said by 1800 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Ossipov, "Suvorov," 1945.
“The more comfort the less courage there is.”
Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800) said by 1800 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If one has no courage to denounce, if one bows to madness and stupidity, how can one ever hope to cope with the other wrongs of humanity exploited in the same fashion by Communists?”
Madame Nhu (1924–2011) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letters to the Times: Mrs. Nhu Defends Stand", The New York Times, 14 August 1963. Referring to the self-immolation of Buddhist monks protesting government actions.
“Courage is a mutual thing.”
Keith Olbermann (born 1959) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: [From Twitter, November 13, 2010]
“And yet — and yet! He had done the right thing, though the Lord alone knew how it would end. He began to pluck courage from his very melancholy, and hope from his reflexions on the transitoriness of life. He was austerely following Romance as he conceived it, and if that capricious lady had taken one dream from him she might yet reward him with a better.”
John Buchan (1875–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh — that is to say, over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of sickness, of isolation, and of death. There is no serious piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) first seen 1849 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1 October 1849
“Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 16 November 1864
“It is dangerous to abandon one’s self to the luxury of grief: it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 29 December 1871
“For fifty years the women of this nation have tried to dam up this deadly stream that poisons all their lives, but thus far they have lacked the insight or courage to follow it back to its source and there strike the blow at the fountain of all tyranny, religious superstition, priestly power and the canon law.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.”
Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) first seen 1566 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response to Parliament (October 1566)
“It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler... You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-karat friendship I felt for Lutz Long at that moment. Hitler must have gone crazy watching us embrace. The sad part of the story is I never saw Long again. He was killed in World War II.”
Jesse Owens (1913–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the congratulations given by German athlete Lutz Long, a competitor in the long jump, who in some accounts he credited with giving him some friendly advice that helped him to win against him; as quoted in "Owens pier…
“In the end, young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.”
John Howard (born 1939) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2006 Australia Day Address (25 January 2006)
“Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.”
Catherine Doherty (1896–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brida (1990).
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Devil and Miss Prym [O Demônio e a srta Prym] (2000), p. x; this has also been misquoted as "A moment is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
“We love because Love sets us free, and we say things that we once never even had the courage to whisper to ourselves.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Young men go to war. Sometimes because they are have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.”
Mitch Albom (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.”
Helen Hayes (1900–1993) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Showcase (1966) by Roy Newquist
“With determination, courage, solidarity and with the help of every citizen we shall make this state a real power.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Public address, Karachi Club, 9 August 1947
“You have performed wonders in the past. You are still capable of repeating the history. You are not lacking in the great qualities and virtues in comparison with the other nations. Only you have to be fully conscious of that fact and to act with courage, faith and unity.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation 24 October 1947.
“The exploits of your leaders in many a historic field of battle; the progress of your Revolution; the rise and career of the great Atatürk, his revitalization of your nation by his great statesmanship, courage and foresight all these stirring events are well-known to the people of Pakistan.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reply to the speech made by the first Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan at the time of presenting Credentials to the Quaid-i-Azam (4 March 1948)
“Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Mohammad Ali Jinnah : A Political Study (1962) by M. H. Saiyid, p. 9
“Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it.”
Marilynne Robinson (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Between a man and a woman, collaboration and admiration are more natural than competition. The woman accepts the secondary role willingly; she gives the man what he needs in the way of courage and moral support.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing," wrote General de Gaulle, "strengthens authority so much as silence." Speech dilutes thought; it allows one's courage to leak away — in short, it dissipates the concentration that is required.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To deal with the problems of modern society, hard thought, confrontation with an often unpleasant reality, and moral courage are needed, for which a vague and self-congratulatory broadmindedness is no substitute.”
Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An imaginary “scandal” (May 2005).
“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source