- Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
- Mary Tyler Moore on Courage
- That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
- Kerry Washington on Courage
- The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.
- The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
- John Stuart Mill on Courage
- The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Courage
- 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.
- Terri Clark on Courage
- The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
- Mercy Otis Warren on Courage
- The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
- Geraldo Rivera on Courage
- The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
- Edward Gibbon on Courage
- The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.
- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus on Courage
- The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
- John F. Kennedy on Courage
- The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
- Christopher Morley on Courage
- The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
- The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
- Paul Tillich on Courage
- The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
- Paul Tillich on Courage
- The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
- Daniel J. Boorstin on Courage
- The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
- Thomas Carlyle on Courage
- The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.
- Dianne Feinstein on Courage
- The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss on Courage
- The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Courage
- The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Green Ingersoll on Courage
- The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
- 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.
- Joseph Conrad on Courage
- The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
- Van Wyck Brooks on Courage
- The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
- Alexandra Fuller on Courage
- The more wit the less courage.
- Thomas Fuller on Courage
- The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
- Coco Chanel on Courage
- The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.
- Portia De Rossi on Courage
- The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.
- James Hillman on Courage
- The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
- Carson Daly on Courage
- The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- Mignon McLaughlin on Courage
- The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
- Marlon Brando on Courage
- The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw on Courage
- The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
- Jim Hightower on Courage
- The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Courage
- The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.
- Nikki Haley on Courage
- The President regards the Japanese as a brave people but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.
- Townsend Harris on Courage
- The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.
- Dean Smith on Courage
- The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
- Thomas Aquinas on Courage
- The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
- Thomas S. Monson on Courage
- The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Courage
- 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.
- Bryan Miller on Courage
- The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.
- Nick Clooney on Courage
- The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.
- Christopher Monckton on Courage
- The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
- Joseph Conrad on Courage
- The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
- Thucydides on Courage
- The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.
- Rene Cassin on Courage
- The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
- Michel De Montaigne on Courage
- The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman on Courage
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