Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
Unjust. How many times I’ve used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don’t have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It’s harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
One has to have the courage of one’s pessimism.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they’ve shown in making these elections so successful.
In our film profession you may have Gable’s looks, Tracy’s art, Marlene’s legs or Liz’s violet eyes, but they don’t mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
