We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.
Courage is… the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation – through compassion and courage – about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
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.
I think a lot of bands would rather put mediocre rock tracks on their album to try to maintain some sort of testosterone badge of courage.
It is past time for Democrats and Republicans to join together to create a bipartisan coalition for courage and common sense.
We could all do with a little more courage, frankly.
So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn’t take up the courage to go there.
I emphasize… that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you’ll be labeled a political writer.
What I like most about Bolano is his courage.
Whenever I see John Lewis, I invariably say, ‘Thank you.’ And I will never stop. I don’t know how he’s still standing, because what he endured took courage and strength that I don’t know that I have.
I feel proud every time I recall the valour and courage of our army men in the war against Pakistan.
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.
Terrorism is not a sign of courage. It means cowardice.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
Martin Luther King and Gandhi were not people who failed in self-respect. They were people of hope and great courage, and their courage was disciplined.
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person’s habitual misery.
I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that’s been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.
In my opinion, empowerment is when women have the chance to do what they want to do and the courage to do what they want.
