In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraReal nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert CamusCourage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. PattonNo man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore RooseveltYou will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
AristotleIn a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William ShakespeareNo rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.
J. ColeHe that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel JohnsonIt’s not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.
Paulo CoelhoFrom caring comes courage.
Lao TzuWe’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
Joe BidenI will praise any man that will praise me.
William ShakespeareUndeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich NietzscheIt’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.
Robert KiyosakiIt is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Fyodor DostoevskyI’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.
Amy WinehouseIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaEfforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. KennedyWhat would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van GoghAmerica is just downright mean.
Michelle ObamaDo you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar WildeTrue nobility is exempt from fear.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWe can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.
Joyce MeyerFalsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Hosea BallouWhen you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!
Joyce MeyerWriting is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
Wayne DyerThe chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph AddisonCourtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore RooseveltPeople with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann HesseThe wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo MachiavelliA nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. KennedyHe is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
SocratesI tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?
Vivienne WestwoodYou get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
Taylor SwiftNo one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
Julius CaesarWhatever the reviewers feel about ‚The Casual Vacancy‘, it is what I wanted it to be, and you can’t say fairer than that as a writer.
J. K. RowlingTo announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore RooseveltDaring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
Brene BrownMost of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale CarnegieThe person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale CarnegieI do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.
Charles SpurgeonWomen have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
Alice WalkerI know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.
Alice WalkerI’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.
Jimmy CarterThe difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.
Brene BrownMany will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Che GuevaraThe great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.
Friedrich NietzscheIf I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
Abraham MaslowThe future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee WilliamsHow can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
Henry David ThoreauI don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
Karl LagerfeldThe coward only threatens when he is safe.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePeace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
Desmond TutuI wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.
Alexander the GreatIt’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.
Lando NorrisWe have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!
Maya AngelouI like criticism. It makes you strong.
LeBron JamesThere is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWho could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William ShakespeareI always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.
Joel Osteen