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It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
— Kevin Spacey
Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.
— Miriam Makeba
Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us. 
— Jawaharlal Nehru
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
— Roland Barthes
The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
— Noah Webster
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence. 
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
— Samuel Butler
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.
— Art Blakey
Justice is truth in action.
— Benjamin Disraeli
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
— Horace Mann
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
— Hosea Ballou
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
— Mary Astell
Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
— Nathan Lane
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
— Thomas Huxley
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
— Hans Eysenck
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
— Yehudi Menuhin
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
— Ambrose Bierce
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
— H. G. Wells
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
— Samuel Johnson
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
— John Stuart Mill
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
— Will Rogers
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
— Edith Sitwell
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
— Jean Rostand
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
— Simone de Beauvoir
There is no original truth, only original error.
— Gaston Bachelard
Wisdom is found only in truth.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
— Graham Greene
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
— Harry S Truman
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.
— Howard Dean
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
— Barbra Streisand
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
— Winston Churchill
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
— Henry George
For truth is always strange stranger than fiction. 
— Lord Byron
The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
— Barbara Boxer
Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
— Louis Agassiz
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
— Czeslaw Milosz
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
— David Blaine
We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
— Dean Stanley
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.
— Grover Cleveland
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
— Seamus Heaney
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
— Seamus Heaney
The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
— Claudio Monteverdi
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
— Petrarch
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
— Lee Atwater
The truth of the matter was that I made myself disappear. I never liked being a Judge, so I just decided to start over. Sorry to inconvenience anyone.
— Joseph Force Crater
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
— John le Carre
What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.
— Sun Ra
If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
— Larry David
It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.
— Richard Morris
I want a language that speaks the truth.
— Studs Terkel
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.
— Gottfried Leibniz
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
— George Henry Lewes
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
— Jock Sturges
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
— John Mellencamp
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
— John Malkovich
On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
— Anthony Quinn
I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.
— Edward Burnett Tylor
I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
— Burt Lancaster
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
— Leslie Fiedler
I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
— Carrie Fisher
A gift of truth is the gift of love.
— David Icke
I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.
— Bo Gritz
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
— Will Rogers
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
— Terry Pratchett
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
— Aldous Huxley
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
— Wole Soyinka
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
— Michel de Montaigne
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. 
— Matthew Arnold
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
— Marsha Norman
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
— George Bancroft
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
— Ernest Renan
Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
— Elizabeth Kenny
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
— Michel de Montaigne
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
— Herman Melville
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
— Ronald Fisher
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
— Blaise Pascal
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
— Ambrose Bierce
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
— Marquis de Sade
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
— Michael Kinsley
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
— Mark Twain
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
— Samuel Johnson
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
— Voltaire
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
— Albert Camus
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. 
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Half a truth is better than no politics.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
— Samuel Butler
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
— Aldous Huxley
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
— William Hazlitt
Truth is what works.
— William James
Live truth instead of professing it.
— Elbert Hubbard
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
— Harry S Truman
The words of truth are simple.
— Aeschylus
Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
— Bryant H. McGill
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
— E. O. Wilson
Veiling truth in mystery.
— Virgil
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
— George Lucas
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Light is the symbol of truth.
— James Russell Lowell
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
— James Russell Lowell
Humility is truth.
— Desiderius Erasmus
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
— John Dryden
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
— Joseph Conrad
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
— Joseph Conrad
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
— Will Durant
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
— Vernon Howard
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
— Ezra Pound
Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
— Louis Farrakhan
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
— David Icke
The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it. 
— Clarence Darrow
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
— Quintilian
What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
— Tracey Emin
No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.
— Anna Held
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
— Elizabeth Bowen
I will tell the truth wherever I please.
— Mary Harris Jones
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
— Bill Hicks
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
— Andre Maurois
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
— Ramakrishna
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
— John Charles Polanyi
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
— Tertullian
The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.
— Diane Abbott
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
— Saint Patrick
The truth is overrated.
— Paul Westerberg
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
— Flannery O'Connor
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
— Horace Walpole
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
— Edith Stein
Truth comes out in wine.
— Pliny the Elder
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
— Lawrence Durrell
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
— Hosea Ballou
Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
— Timothy Radcliffe
Truth is stranger than fiction fiction has to make sense. 
— Leo Rosten
If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.
— Howard Gardner
To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
— Bear Bryant
Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.
— Franz Boas
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
— Michael Musto
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
— John Jay Chapman
Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.
— Ernst Toller
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.
— Dalton Trumbo
In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.
— Fred Ward
And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
— William Peter Blatty
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
— Edith Hamilton
The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.
— Roland Allen
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
— Anna Howard Shaw
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
— Anna Jameson
Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.
— Scott Dixon
The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
— Corliss Lamont
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
— Carl Reiner
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.
— Saul Kripke
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
— I. F. Stone
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
— Leslie Stephen
I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.
— Clayton Moore
The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
— Eliza Farnham
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
— Herbert Gold
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. 
— Alice Duer Miller
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
— Muhammad Ali
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
— Bruce Lee
We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
— Barbara De Angelis
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
— Marcus Garvey
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.
— Bethany Hamilton
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. 
— Winston Churchill
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
— John F. Kennedy
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
— Confucius
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
— Ray Bradbury
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
— Maya Angelou
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
— Jim Hightower
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
— Maya Angelou
From caring comes courage.
— Lao Tzu
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
— Douglas Coupland
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
— C. S. Lewis
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
— Carl von Clausewitz
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
— Aristotle
Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
— Don Miguel Ruiz
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
— Socrates
Creativity takes courage.
— Henri Matisse
As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores.
— Burgess Owens
On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.
— Patrick Lencioni
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
— Orison Swett Marden
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
— Billy Graham
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
— Thomas S. Monson
I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.
— Tim O'Brien
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.
— Joe Torre
I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.
— Burgess Owens
People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'
— Ronda Rousey
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
— Ronald Reagan
One man with courage is a majority.
— Thomas Jefferson
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
— John Keegan
With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
— Dan Lipinski
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.
— Cesar Chavez
Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all.
— Billy Crystal
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
— Michel de Montaigne
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
— Benjamin Franklin
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
— Jacqueline Bisset
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
— Joseph Stalin
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
— Gloria Steinem
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
— Confucius
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
— Rahul Dravid
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
— Horace
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
— Lewis Mumford
Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up your self-confidence and gives you more courage.
— Evelyn Lauder
He who is brave is free.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
— Rollo May
You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.
— Austin Seferian-Jenkins
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
— Ovid
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
— Nicholas M. Butler
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.'
— Maya Angelou
Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.
— Kevin Rudd
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
— Michel de Montaigne
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
— Albert Camus
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue. 
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
— Christopher Reeve
He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
— Anne Frank
Boldness be my friend.
— William Shakespeare
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
— Benjamin Banneker
True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher. 
— John Petit-Senn
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
— George S. Patton
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
— E. F. Schumacher
We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out.
— John Lewis
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
— Hermann Hesse
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. 
— Wendell Phillips
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. 
— John F. Kennedy
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
— Ralph W. Sockman
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
— Robert Crumb
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
— Mercy Otis Warren
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
— David Viscott
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
— Alfred P. Sloan
The 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 Brown
Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
— Bart Starr
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
— Leon Blum
Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day.
— Bernie Siegel
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.
— Regina Brett
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
— William Alexander
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
— Denis Waitley
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'
— Maya Angelou
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
— Winston Churchill
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
— William Slim
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
— Stanislaus I
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
— William Blake
To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is.
— Hasan Minhaj
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
— Thomas Aquinas
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
— Sean Penn
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
— J. D. Salinger
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
— Arthur Koestler
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
— Paul Tillich
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.
— Robert E. Lee
Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
— Billy Graham
Part of courage is simple consistency.
— Peggy Noonan
When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free.
— Rei Kawakubo
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
— Pablo Casals
Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.
— Daniel Kahneman
A 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. Kennedy
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
— Nicholas M. Butler
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
— George W. Bush
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
— John Steinbeck
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
— Jenny Shipley
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.
— Alanis Morissette
Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
— Tara Brach
I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.
— Dalia Mogahed
The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.
— Maya Angelou
My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.
— Jane Goodall
Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them.
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
— C. V. Raman
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
— George Bernard Shaw
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
— Moliere
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
— Brene Brown
For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.
— Deepak Chopra
I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.
— Mary Tyler Moore
Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
— Confucius
Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide. 
— Andrew Johnson
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.
— Tom Brown, Jr.
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
— John Bunyan
If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.
— Pope Francis
Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.
— Gary Zukav
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
— Dan Rather
I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.
— Louis Nizer
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
— Sydney Smith
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
— Zig Ziglar
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
— Carl Lewis
I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.
— Christian Bale
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
— Aaron Hill
Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.
— John Bytheway
That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
— Kerry Washington
Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
— Maya Angelou
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
— Marlene Dietrich
I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.
— Maria Mitchell
Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.
— Sigourney Weaver
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
— Adam Driver
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
— Lillian Hellman
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
— Paul Tillich
Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
— Bob Richards
I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
— Erma Bombeck
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
— George Bernard Shaw
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
— Virgil
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
— Virginia Woolf
A man of courage is also full of faith.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
— Charles Caleb Colton
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
— Coventry Patmore
Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.
— Timothy Dalton
I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster. 
— Catherine the Great
It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
— Owen D. Young
Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? 
— Marie Antoinette
You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
— George Konrad
There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
— David Letterman
Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
— Adam Driver
I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.
— Sharon Salzberg
Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
— Paul Johnson
The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.
— Brene Brown
It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.
— Glenn Greenwald
What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life that they hadn't planned for themselves. And they wake up one day and say, 'Hang on. Who am I? Is this really me? Is this what I really wanted?' And also, 'Can I change it? Have I got the courage to change it?'
— Kate Winslet
The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.
— Tom Brokaw