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.
My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.
Don’t wish me happiness – I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor – I will need them all.
It’s so easy to be there when it’s all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.
Well, I think that – I think leadership’s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
Something I learned along the way is that you really have to have courage in life. You can do amazing things on any level. It doesn’t have to change the world; it can just impact the people around you – that’s just as amazing.
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
We had a rule-breaker at Mainz – the club manager Christian Heidel, who had the courage to make me a Bundesliga coach.
He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
Courage doesn’t come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.
That’s part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.
You can always find a reason to say no. It’s the easiest vote. It’s also not exactly a red badge of courage.
