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Quotes About Courageous

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.
~ Jerome S. Bruner
No guts, no glory.
~ Anonymous
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.
~ Evander Holyfield
I have always admired the courage of ordinary individuals to step up and speak out against injustice and tyranny.
~ Pritam Singh
If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Self trust is the essence of heroism.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
~ T. S. Eliot
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
~ T.S. Eliot
Fight for what you believe in, speak your mind, and don't be afraid.
~ Ally Brooke
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
~ Camille Paglia
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
~ Robert Dale Owen
A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
~ Edmond Rostand
Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Being an American musician means being adventurous.
~ Michael Tilson Thomas
Now there was Grace. An unexpected gift. She was far more than he'd ever fantasized about. She was courageous and beautiful. Intelligent and no pushover.
~ Christine Feehan
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
~ Victor Hugo
I am, too, but the greatest deeds in life require us to rise above our fear.
~ Kristin Harmel
But the greatest deeds in life require us to rise above our fear.
~ Kristin Harmel
Why, oh why, had Jace picked a fight with a pack of wolves? What had possessed him? Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him. -Clary, pg.40-
~ Cassandra Clare
As I set my foot upon the path leading to that little brown house, I felt like an impostor. Surely, I had no business here. This was the house of another man. A man I remembered. A person of moral certainty, and some measure of wisdom, whom many called courageous. How could I masquerade as such a one? For I was a fool, a coward, uncertain of everything.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
~ Gloria Steinem
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
~ Bernard Shaw