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“In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.”
June Jordan (1936–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a long time I sat still, staring at the passing scenery through which the train was speeding, pondering the loneliness in each individual soul. The struggle of man, alone with the feeble resources of courage at his command, against a universe that cares nothing for his hopes and fears.”
Anzia Yezierska (1880–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.”
Edith Evans (1888–1976) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the annual actors' Equity meeting (1951)
“Faith is not a certainty. Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.”
Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks (1948–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh! then, let us gird up our minds in courage, and compose them in peace. Let us cast aside fear and suspicion, suspend our jealousies and disputes, acknowledge the rights of others and assert our own. And oh! let us understand that the first and noblest of these rights is, the cultivation of our reason.”
Frances Wright (1795–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.”
Thomas S. Monson (1927–2018) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Call for Courage, speaking at General Conference in April 2004.
“The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.”
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.”
Paul Bourget (1852–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't know if I lost the courage to kill myself, or gained the strength not to, but I didn't do it. I kept living and drinking and doing drugs and fucking up. Eventually I ended up here.”
James Frey (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have said that in my opinion at the present time, as to the main fabric of our Army system, the truest courage and the best reforming wisdom lies in leaving well alone.”
Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (15 March 1895)
“And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect, nothing is, and no one is — and that’s OK.”
Katie Couric (born 1957) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Graduation speech at Williams College, 2007
“Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.”
David Mitchell (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.”
Ted Malloch (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Courage… is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.”
Ted Malloch (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Faith engenders courage; and also requires it.”
Ted Malloch (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have said these things to you so that by means of me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but take courage! I have conquered the world.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.”
Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766) first seen 1765 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This appeared in Banneker's Almanac in 1794, and is commonly attributed to him, but originates earlier in "Reflections on different Subjects of Morality, by Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland, Duke of Lorrain and Bar…
Also quoted by: Benjamin Banneker (misattributed)
“The story of their gallantry came to epitomize a spirit of courage, duty and self-sacrifice.”
Steve Turner (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is not in history a more splendid and inspiring example of self-control, of self-sacrifice, of courage and of manliness.”
Steve Turner (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Moral courage is the backbone of a dignified life.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Responsibility is never imposed; it is assumed, often in the quiet courage of everyday decisions.” K. P.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy. This fear has often the effect of courage: but it cannot prevail against the fierce and obstinate valor of people animated by fanaticism, or warm love of their country.”
Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Becoming an adventurous, liminal church means getting over risk aversion. Often the difference between a successful person (or organization) and a failure lies not in having better abilities or ideas, but in having the courage to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.”
Alan Hirsch (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.”
Alan Hirsch (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One day you'll find a love, and then we can talk on equal terms. I do not mean that to sound patronizing. You are bright and intelligent. You have courage and wit. But sometimes, it is like trying to describe colors to a blind man. Love, as I hope you will find, has great power. Even death cannot destroy it. And I still love her.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Evil is never truly strong, for it is born of fear. Why did he fall so easily? Because he tested your strength and saw the possibility of death [...] had he possessed true courage, he would have fought back. Instead he froze — and died.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I did understand from the rebirth process was that the rebirth reproduced a physical duplicate of the original. But this is my point. It is physical. What truly makes a man who he is? Is it the strength of his arms, or the courage of his soul? You have your own soul, Harad. You are not Druss. Live your own life.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[On the Wizard of Oz] Lion's lookin' for some courage... Tin Man's lookin' for a heart... ain't none of them lookin' for some pussy, and they skippin' down the street WITH a fucking bitch!”
Martin Lawrence (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear is the root of all courage”
Vivian Stanshall (1943–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Courage has many faces.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We remember the Tommy Douglas quote Jack included in every email he sent: 'Courage my friends, 'tis never too late to build a better world'.”
Nycole Turmel (born 1942) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: friends, colleagues pay tribute to Layton August 22, 2011.
“Courage is the ability to ignore your options.”
Tom Heehler wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.”
Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Notebook entry, quoted in Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life (2003) by Caroline Moorehead, p. 88.
“There is no human quality more attractive than the courage of the weak.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Home Fires (2011), Reflection 1
“Courage is not herself enough. She cannot stand alone. She is a part, not a whole, a wife, not a man and wife. A well appreciated helpmeet.”
Margery Allingham (1904–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where there had been hope, there was now hopelessness. Where there had been courage, there was now cynicism. Where there had been life, there was a living death. During Nixon's reign, much of life was transformed into a nightmare.”
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others — that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee?”
Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 467.
“Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.”
James Richardson (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The desire to tell the truth is only one condition for being an intellectual. The other is courage, readiness to carry on rational inquiry to wherever it may lead … to withstand … comfortable and lucrative conformity.”
Paul A. Baran (1909–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Commitment of the Intellectual," in The Longer View (1969), p. 14
“We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning.”
Traudl Junge (1920–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Until the Final Hour : Hitler's Last Secretary (2004) edited by Melissa Müller, Foreword, p. 3.
“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else”
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fundamental optimism which is an element of all true nobility … is obviously related to courage since it refuses to be discouraged in the face of what sometimes seems overwhelming evidence.”
R. W. K. Paterson (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The consciousness of the patrician remains open to the symbolisms which surround him. He believes that they may be rungs on a ladder of being which he can ascend. … He has the courage to dwell in their midst and thus to form his life by reference to dimensions of significance which transcend his narrow mundane interests as a physical organism.”
R. W. K. Paterson (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The patrician … has the courage to listen to and retain whatever may be glorious in the ambiguous revelations that are being offered to him; he is resolved to miss nothing, to plumb every depth and scale every height, in the pilgrimage of his consciousness.”
R. W. K. Paterson (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Artist, philosopher, lover, mystic—these words name levels of consciousness which are accessible to all of us. It is not a question of training, education, or degree of sophistication. It is rather a question of openness, of courage and endeavour, of willingness to dwell elsewhere than in the midst of demeaning preoccupations with material fortune, status, and power.”
R. W. K. Paterson (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people’s ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That’s the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.”
Rahul Dravid (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The movement of the Spirit of God in the hearts of men and women often calls them to act against the spirit of their times or causes them to anticipate a spirit which is yet in the making. In a moment of dedication they are given wisdom and courage to dare a deed that challenges and to kindle a hope that inspires.”
Howard Thurman (1899–1981) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Footprints of a Dream : The Story of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples (1959), p. 7
“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.”
Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal, 29 March 1912; final words, quoted in Scott's Last Expedition (1913) vol.1, ch.20
“What is needed is courage: it is always so much easier to accept what you are being told than to think for yourself.”
Ivar Ekeland (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hello. To you all good English men and women, just wanted to say that you're a blessing to all in Europe, in these dark times all of Europe are looking to you in surch of inspiration, courage and even hope that we might turn this evil trend with islamisation all across our continent.”
Anders Behring Breivik (born 1979) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Norway massacre: Gunman 'wanted to join EDL rally', BBC News (9 March 2011)