Courage Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.

Henry Laurens

It's a brave new world.

Howard Kurtz

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

George Konrad

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

William Alexander

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Peter Ustinov

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

Judith Light

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.

Robert Wagner

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Alan Autry

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

Richard Gere

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Earl Nightingale

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

Marlene Dietrich

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Mickey Mantle

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Tori Amos

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Jessica Simpson

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

Richard Thompson

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.

Jasmine Guy

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

Catherine Deneuve

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Mary Tyler Moore

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Janeane Garofalo

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

James Thomson

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Bruce Lee

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Mary Tyler Moore

I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless.

Cathy Freeman

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Kenneth Branagh

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

Political courage is not political suicide.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

Tony Randall

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Dolly Parton

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

Alain Prost

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... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Helen Hayes

I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was.

Rod Steiger

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

William Hurt

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

Paul Robeson

Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

Gabriela Sabatini

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.

Peter Davison

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Channing Pollock

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

Mira Sorvino

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.

Jose Carreras

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Lady Gaga

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

Tom Wilkinson

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

George Eads

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

Carson Daly

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

Andrew Shue

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

Oscar Hammerstein II

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

Carl Lewis