The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
In ‘Tree of Life,’ the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
Courage makes victory possible.
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
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.
It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to keep it.
Let your customers be your partners; let your vendors be your employees. What’s necessary in this transformation more than anything else is courage and a willingness to change.
I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
The truth won’t set us free – until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Have the courage to act instead of react.
Not everyone is able to show courage, but human decency must be demanded of every person.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy – some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.
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.
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
