Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. "

Jean Baudrillard

Related Quotes:

" It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. "

" I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. "

" What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare. "

" I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. "

" One has to have the courage of one's pessimism. "

" It takes some courage to say you were wrong. "

" You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. "

" To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. "

Jean Baudrillard

" Everyone deals with trauma differently, and recovery is always a work in progress. But courage is contagious, and the more that people stand up and speak out against misogyny, the faster we can create the kind of world where we won't have to. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

" An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. "

Joseph Pulitzer

" As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. "

" I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English. "

" But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives. "

Michael Hutchence

" My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.' "

" It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. "

" The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born. "

Malala Yousafzai

" Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

" Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. "

" You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. "

" When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God. "

Nathaniel Philbrick

" The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge. "

" No one has all the answers, so whatever a woman who has the BRCA mutation chooses to do requires courage and an element of faith. And a lot of love and support. "

" You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go. "

" You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.' "

" As a person, I am someone who wants to give my the best in every take. I wouldn't say it was easy for me to get into the industry because I come from a background where no one has been in films. But I do believe if you work hard, you will get noticed. Modeling gave me that courage to stand in front of the camera. "

" Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. "

" People don't follow titles, they follow courage. "

William Wells Brown

" Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed. "

" All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop. "

" I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much. "

Diane von Furstenberg