581 quotes
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time."
— André Gide
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
— Anaïs Nin
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been."
— Alan Alda
"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."
— Isaac Newton
"Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the road may be for without victory there is no survival."
— Sir Winston Churchill
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
"There is safety in the very heart of danger."
— Vincent van Gogh
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
— T. S. Eliot
"How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized."
— Salman Rushdie
"Though I've belted you and flayed you By the livin' Gawd that made you You're a better man than I am Gunga Din."
— Rudyard Kipling
"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else."
— Reinhold Niebuhr
"Dare to be naive."
— Buckminster Fuller
"The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they."
— Plutarch
"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
— Plato
"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation"
— Nelson Mandela
"Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace."
"Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong."
— Muhammad Ali
"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
— Martin Luther King
"There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity."