It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Communism is a way of thinking. Socialism is wimpy communism. When you don’t have the courage to become a communist, you become a socialist.
Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.
The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what’s safe and comfortable.
I think courage is commensurate with your fear – if you lack imagination and you’re fearless, that’s not courage to me.
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn’t original sin. He’s born with the tragedy that he has to grow up… a lot of people don’t have the courage to do it.
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.
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.
It’s real easy to talk about stepping in the ring, but once you do actually step in the ring, it takes a lot of courage and mental fortitude to do what we do.
We ought to have the courage of our convictions and confidence in our own ingenuity. After all, that’s what America is all about. Either that, or learn Mandarin.
In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‘Who do you think you are?’
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.
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size… has ever surpassed my courage.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
Sometimes the rewards of risk don’t leave us wrecked. Sometimes we find our passion, our purpose, courage, connection, and comfort. Every good thing in our lives is a direct result of risk.
