"Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name."
Read quote
51 likes
Names quotes
Names
7.1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Names
Browse quotes that often appear alongside names — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Names quotes (page 7 of 353)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Did you like question ten, Moony?" asked Sirius as they emerged into the entrance hall. "Loved it," said Lupin briskly. "Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question." "D'you think you managed to get all the signs?" said James in tones of mock concern. "Think I did," said Lupin seriously, as they joined the crowd thronging around the front doors eager to get out into the sunlit grounds. "One: He's sitting on my chair. Two: He's wearing my clothes. Three: His name's Remus Lupin."
Read quote
51 likes
"And what in the name of Merlin’s most baggy Y Fronts was that about?"
Read quote
51 likes
"How can you be any purer than pure if your name is Carter? How can you get away from being a Carter? There's a part of you that's gonna come through. How do you keep from doing it? It's what you're born to do."
Read quote
51 likes
"Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali."
Read quote
51 likes
"I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, 'What?'"
Read quote
51 likes
"Do the things you believe in, in the name of love. And know that, you aren't alone. We all have doubts and fears."
Read quote
49 likes
"The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight."
Read quote
48 likes
"Delirium: 'What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?' Dream: 'There isn't one.' Delirium: 'Oh. I thought maybe there was.'"
Read quote
48 likes
"I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince."
Read quote
47 likes
"There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see."
Read quote
47 likes
"My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name."
Read quote
46 likes
"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name."
Read quote
46 likes
"O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil."
Read quote
46 likes
"Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad."
Read quote
46 likes
"If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness."
Read quote
46 likes
"A good education is another name for happiness."
Read quote
45 likes
"Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction."
Read quote
45 likes
"Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited."
Read quote
45 likes
"How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens."
Read quote
44 likes