Quotes · Skopia

59 quotes

1716

★ 1.2

Essay · Newspaper

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin

1962

★ 1.2

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Listen, you promise me something, OK? Just if you’re ever in trouble, don’t true to be brave. You just run, OK? Just run away.

Jenny Curran

Forrest Gump · 1994

★ 1.3

Essay

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

1962

★ 1.8

Only the brave know how to forgive... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Laurence Sterne

1760

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then when you have the chance to do it better refuse to go near it.

Vaclav Havel

2007

★ 1.9

Speech

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

1802

★ 1.9

Film · Fantasy (film) · Musical (film) · Fantasy · Musical

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz · 1939

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning · 1946

★ 1.9

Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness.

Fred Rogers

2003

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

2nd Timothy 1:7

★ 2.0

Political literature

Action brings with it its own courage, its own energy, a growth of self-confidence that can be acquired in no other way.

Eleanor Roosevelt

1963

★ 2.0

Film · Martial arts (film) · Action (film) · Martial arts · Action

You can flinch, you have fighting spirit!

Tanaka

Bloodsport · 1988

★ 2.0

Film · Action (film) · Thriller (film) · Action · Thriller

Guts'll get you so far, then they'll get you killed.

Harry

Speed · 1994

★ 2.0

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

★ 2.0

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue

Who has knowledge of what is to be dreaded and what is not—the man whom I call courageous?

Nicias

Plato, Laches · 380 BC

★ 2.3

Play · Comedy (play)

Our doubts are traitors And makes us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure · 1616

★ 2.3

Poem

Oh how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

A.E. Housman

1922

★ 3.5

Personal journal

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in a bed.

Charles Lindbergh

1938

★ 3.5

Opera · Comedy

Faint heart never won fair lady! Nothing venture, nothing win- Blood is thick, but water's thin- In for a penny, in for a pound- It's Love that makes the world go round!

W.S. Gilbert

1882

★ 3.5

Novel

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters · 1925

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Robert F. Kennedy

1966

★ 3.5

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

I thought you were incredibly brave. And I mean that in strictly the most clinical and professional sense possible, with no emotional, intimate, sexual, or any other undertones that you could possibly infer.

Denise

Step Brothers · 2008

★ 3.5

Speech

Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure.

Charlie Kaufman

2011

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

As in religion, so in politics, it is faith, and not despondency, that overcomes mountains and scales the heavens.

William Seward

1863

★ 3.6

Poem

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

1914

★ 3.6

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

Raymond Chandler

The Simple Art of Murder · 1944

★ 3.6

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

You don't know about real loss 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.

Sean

Good Will Hunting · 1997

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech · Historical literature

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Pericles

Thucydides, Funeral Oration, History of the Peloponnesian War · 430 BC

★ 3.7

Poem

Even if strength fail, boldness at least will Deserve praise: in great endeavors even to have Had the will is enough.

Propertius

15 BC

★ 3.7

Play · History (play)

The better part of valor is discretion.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1 · 1597

★ 3.7

Play · History (play)

For courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare

The Life and Death of King John · 1616

★ 3.7

Speech

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

1899

★ 3.7

Poem

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things.

Amelia Earhart

1928

★ 3.7

Personal journal

Refuse to be an accomplice.

Simone Weil

1933

★ 3.7

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

1937

★ 3.7

Film · Western (film) · Western

Friend, there's nobody up there shooting back at you. It isn't always being fast or even accurate that counts. It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull a trigger. I won't.

J.B. Books

The Shootist · 1976

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Western (film) · Comedy · Western

No, we will not die like dogs, we will fight like lions because we are the three amigos!

Dusty Bottoms

Three Amigos! · 1986

★ 3.7

Play · Comedy (play)

Fortune assists the brave.

Terence

161 BC

★ 3.8

Almanac

How few there are who have courage enough to own their Faults, or resolution enough to mend them!

Benjamin Franklin

1743

★ 3.8

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