- Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
- Jeff Goodell on Courage
- 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.
- Maxwell Maltz on Courage
- 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.
- Andre Malraux on Courage
- Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
- Vittorio Alfieri on Courage
- Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
- Vittorio Alfieri on Courage
- On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
- Marvin Olasky on Courage
- Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
- Theodore Sturgeon on Courage
- One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
- Ian Mcewan on Courage
- One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
- Maya Angelou on Courage
- One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.
- Miguel De Cervantes on Courage
- One man with courage is a majority.
- Thomas Jefferson on Courage
- One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson on Courage
- One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
- One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.
- Josefina Vazquez Mota on Courage
- One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
- Katherine Anne Porter on Courage
- One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
- Kenneth Branagh on Courage
- Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
- Nicholas M. Butler on Courage
- Optimism is the foundation of courage.
- Nicholas M. Butler on Courage
- Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
- Kathryn Bigelow on Courage
- Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
- Hans Urs Von Balthasar on Courage
- Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
- Rebecca Harding Davis on Courage
- Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.
- Angela Merkel on Courage
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