Courageous Quotes - Page 3

• You can't test courage cautiously.

  Annie Dillard

  Courage, Insperational, Bravery

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.102, Canongate Books

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• May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

  Bob Dylan

  Strong, Forever, May

  Song: Forever Young, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

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• Faith is reason grown courageous.

  Sherwood Eddy

  Faith, Reason

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• He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

  Aristotle

  Courage, Way, Endure

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”

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• The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

  Coco Chanel

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Believing in Ourselves" by Armand Eisen, (p. 39), 1992.

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• You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Courage, Memorable, Ideas

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• I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good.

  Hal Price

  Fall, People, Wish

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• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

  Kate Chopin

  Artist, Effort, Soul

  Kate Chopin (2014). “The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Strength, Family Love, Eternal Love

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• Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Motivational, Men, Political

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• The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

  Jerome Bruner

  Education, School, Laziness

  The Process of Education (p. 14)

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• There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.

  Norman Reilly Raine

  Cowardly

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• But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

  Marvin Olasky

  Being Strong, Christian, Mean

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• Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

  Charles Edison

  Democracy, Problem

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• Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

  Judith Guest

  Successful, People, Tragedy

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• Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

  W. Clement Stone

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.

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• Have the courage to face the truth

  W. Clement Stone

  Courage, Honesty, Integrity

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Faith, Courage, Father

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• Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

  Billy Graham

  Motivational, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

  "A Time for Moral Courage". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

  Alan Cohen

  Meaningful, Courage, Real

  Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company

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• The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

  Marian Anderson

  Mean, Way, Minutes

  Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.312, University of Illinois Press

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• This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

  Lech Walesa

  Summer, Rights, People

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• There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

  Alan Cohen

  Courage, Adventure, Adventurous Life

  Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company

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• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

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