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Navigating a nonsober world of restaurants and bars, dinner parties, and benefits is like anything that requires practice. Like tennis or a foreign language, it gets easier the more you do it. But like all beginnings, it can be awkward. You stumble, you worry, and then there are unexpected moments of grace that give you the courage to keep going.
— Bill Clegg
Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
— Robert Falcon Scott
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
— Oscar Wilde
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.
— Tullian Tchividjian
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.
— Orison Swett Marden
In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel.
— Rob Lowe
Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'
— Michael Leunig
Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own.
— Pope Benedict XVI
America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
— Rick Perry
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
— Bryant H. McGill
Leaders are focused on using their vision and courage to do great things. This means challenging the way things are done and then sharing the journey with others.
— Lewis Howes
Work on something that matters. Have courage.
— Ginni Rometty
For a long time, it was like I was part of some special forces unit: I'd land, meet everyone, five minutes later I'd have to do some amazing work, then - boom! - I'm out again. You know, playing supporting parts takes courage.
— John C. Reilly
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.
— Lydia Millet
I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
— Catherine Deneuve
I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
— Abdullah II of Jordan
I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection.
— Tiger Shroff
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
John Glenn's life will long be remembered for his time in space, his courage, and his service to all Americans.
— Katherine Johnson
With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.
— John Doolittle
We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom of expression of the people. And we must protect it.
— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
— Robert Dale Owen
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.
— Major Taylor
If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
— Sal Albanese
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
— Paul Tillich
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
— Jeff Koons
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
— Peter Ustinov
Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.
— Zainab Salbi
The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
— Noel Coward
To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
— Olga Kurylenko
We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.
— Walter Gropius
The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.
— Caity Lotz
I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.
— Caroline Kennedy
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
— Antonin Scalia
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
— Erica Jong
The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.
— Simon Van Booy
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
Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.
— Emmanuel Macron
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all. 
— Miguel de Cervantes
Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.
— Dean Kamen
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
— Sharon Salzberg
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
— Marilyn Monroe
I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
— Wallis Simpson
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
— Desmond Tutu
Have the courage to act instead of react.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
— Maya Angelou
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy - some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
— Thomas Merton
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
— Clare Boothe Luce
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
— William Shakespeare
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
— Channing Pollock
I have the courage of my convictions.
— Brigitte Bardot
We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.
— Brian Sandoval
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.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.
— Willy Brandt
Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
— N. R. Narayana Murthy
I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.
— Megyn Kelly
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.
— Anatole France
It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.
— Ray Comfort
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.
— Helen Hayes
Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.
— Susana Martinez
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
— Jean Paul
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
— Jeremy Collier
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
— William Blackstone
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
— Pam Brown
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
Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.
— Cynthia McKinney
When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.
— Junot Diaz
I believe the biggest challenge is just getting the courage to try something different or new. Try to forget the stereotype in your mind. Yoga is for everyone - children, athletes, moms, dads, accountants, truck drivers, even country stars.
— Kristian Bush
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.
— Liya Kebede
The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life.
— Hill Harper
Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.'
— Sean Covey
War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.
— Russell Crowe
Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
— Martha Stewart
Based on my experience, I believe that Ben Sasse has the right policy background, a notable commitment to public service - and, perhaps most importantly, the courage - to help renew our country.
— Jeff Fortenberry
The younger you are, the more courage and audacity you will have to set long-term goals and be there to personally work towards your vision. You will have the confidence to take risks because you have time by your side. You can bring innovation into everything you do and constantly reinvent yourself.
— Shiv Nadar
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
— Torquato Tasso
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
Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.
— Patrick Lencioni
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
— Margaret Heffernan
When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, 'Why can't I do anything I want to do?'
— Carole King
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
— James Thomson
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
— Alexandre Vinet
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
— William Congreve
As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!
— Brene Brown
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
— Rollo May
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
— Rollo May
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
— Leo Rosten
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
— Samuel Johnson
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid a coward knows when you are not. 
— David Seabury
You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
— Paloma Faith
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
— Sydney Smith
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
— Euripides
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
— Whitney M. Young
My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.
— Peter Paul Rubens
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
— James Harvey Robinson
I would kiss you, had I the courage.
— Edouard Manet
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
— Gerry Adams
Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
— Bob Filner
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
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
— Plutarch
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
— Jerome Cady
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
— Laura Linney
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.
— Jane Campion
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
— Geraldine Brooks
Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
— Saint Ignatius
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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.
— Mike Pence
One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.
— Leonard Mlodinow
'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.
— Gina Prince-Bythewood
It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.
— James Norton
When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary.
— Ben Bernanke
Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
— Orison Swett Marden
When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.
— Richard P. Feynman
Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.
— Edward Hirsch
My mother's father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites.
— John C. Mather
During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened.
— Angela Merkel
The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
— Parker Posey
I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.
— La'Porsha Renae
What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
— Twyla Tharp
I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
— Dorothea Lange
Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
— Robert Anthony
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.
— Gabriele D'Annunzio
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
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
— Frances Perkins
Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children.
— Shiv Khera
To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.
— Sarah Kay
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Until there are no more hate crimes, no more vicious bullying and ugly slurs, whenever a person comes out - whether that person is a celebrity or a 'nobody' - it should be celebrated like the triumph of courage it is.
— Donna Brazile
I considered our British comrades to rank with the finest men and women of any armed service in the world. And I know that my fellow American soldiers - and those of the other coalition countries under my command - valued very highly the professional expertise, capability, courage, and determination of our British partners on the battlefield.
— David Petraeus
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
— E. M. Forster
What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
— Eddie Marsan
I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.
— Judith Light
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
— Noam Chomsky
Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that's you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don't really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.
— Joyce Meyer
The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.
— Richard Dawkins
Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.
— Richard Dawkins
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
— Rand Paul
The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.
— Elliott Abrams
My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'
— Gore Vidal
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
— Bertrand Russell
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard.
— Brie Larson
We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
— Joe Biden
Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.
— Orison Swett Marden
You got to have a lot of courage. Secondly, whatever it is you're doing, you have to believe in it wholeheartedly. Thirdly, you have to be able to stand up in front of people and know that they'll laugh.
— Don Rickles
A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
— Suze Orman
In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.
— Suze Orman
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
— Suze Orman
Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.
— Suze Orman
There are looks that I see on other people that I think would look horrible on me, but I think if somebody has the courage to be really daring and try something outlandish, then more power to them. That's just encouraging and inspiring.
— Blake Lively
The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'
— Jesse Ventura
When you question this war on poverty, you get all the criticisms from adherents to the status quo who just don't want to see anything change. We got to have the courage to face that down, just as we did in the welfare reform of the late 1990s, and if we succeeded, we can help resuscitate this culture and get people back to work.
— Paul Ryan
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
— Thomas Carlyle
The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.
— Tina Brown
Political courage is not political suicide.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
In 1984, showing extraordinary courage, a group of Guatemalan wives, mothers and other relatives of disappeared people banded together to form the Mutual Support Group for the Appearance Alive of Our Relatives.
— Stephen Kinzer
Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
— Nancy Gibbs
Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.
— Angela Merkel
We've always had this experience that things take long, but I'm 100% convinced that our principles will in the end prevail. No one knew how the Cold War would end at the time, but it did end. This is within our living experience... I'm surprised at how fainthearted we sometimes are and how quickly we lose courage.
— Angela Merkel
I had to find the courage to turn my life around.
— Nikki Sixx
Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
— Barton Gellman
In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued.
— William Godwin
If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt.
— Charles Kennedy
For me, Arik Sharon - I remember his courage and inspiration. I want to remember him the way he really was, not as an aging 80-year-old man living in bed helpless and unconscious.
— Ehud Olmert
In the many roles I have played in my acting career as military figures, I have simply drawn upon the acts of courage, large and small, I have seen in the men and women with whom I served, and the countless others I met or have come to know through the years.
— Chuck Norris
In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.
— Isabel Allende
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
— William Hazlitt
I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
No one has all the answers, so whatever a woman who has the BRCA mutation chooses to do requires courage and an element of faith. And a lot of love and support.
— Dean Ornish
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.
— Ben Carson
Whatever the long-term legal prospects for same-sex marriage, President Obama's willingness to put the matter front and center in an election year can at least make him a candidate for inclusion in Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.
— Robert Dallek
Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.
— Meghan Markle
You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
— Natalie Dormer
We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.
— Peter Thiel
Despair gives courage to a coward.
— Thomas Fuller
The more wit the less courage.
— Thomas Fuller
I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.
— George Michael
And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.
— Rick Perry
Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.
— Hugh Grant
I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the gift of opposition. When it comes, I learn something about my motives. When it comes, I get to test my courage.
— John Ortberg
You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.
— Estelle
Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.
— Gretchen Rubin
I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children.
— Jerry Hall
TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
— Sharon Stone
If elected Speaker, I promise you that we will have the courage to lead the fight for our conservative principles and make our case to the American people. But we will also have the wisdom to listen to our constituents and each other so that we always move forward together.
— Kevin McCarthy
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
— Erma Bombeck
Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.
— David Cameron
I learned so much from 'Iron Chef' about ingredients, about the courage to put yourself out there.
— Alex Guarnaschelli
I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!
— Jessica Simpson
St. Paul did not want the sufferings encountered by being a Christian to discourage or dishearten anyone. He realized that when the Christian saw the blessings and grace that poured upon him after his trials, he would gain courage to suffer in his turn.
— Mother Angelica
In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
— Kapil Sibal
Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.
— John Cusack
I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.
— Phil Klay
War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
— Phil Klay
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
— Charles Caleb Colton
In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.
— Richard Flanagan
Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration and oppose the U.S.-led invasion.
— Martin Jacques
If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really.
— Daryl Hall
The window was open for us to play in the consumer as data, voice, video came together. This is where you have to have the courage to take good business risks because if you don't, you never win.
— John T. Chambers
In France, President Francois Hollande is leveraging the next wave of the Internet to jumpstart economic reforms and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of citizens. A historically socialist government, France has had the courage to quickly implement unique partnerships with the business community to drive entrepreneurial spirit and thinking.
— John T. Chambers
Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
— Campbell Brown
$200, 300 million games, I'm a little scared about that; there aren't a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much.
— Warren Spector
We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.
— Victoria Pendleton
At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.
— Leslie Odom, Jr.
I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.
— Sharad Pawar
Athletes are used to battling. The public would never learn their names if professional athletes had not shown courage at an early age. They learn they can overcome, but sometimes this becomes a false sense of security that leads them to the edge.
— George Vecsey
Unfortunately, unless we're focused on building up our courage, which gives us our self-confidence and all that we need to make quantum change in our lives, the voice of fear will always take the lead inside our minds.
— Debbie Ford
What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage - to choose life, to keep looking at what's good.
— Debbie Ford
People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
— Iris Apfel
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.
— Jewel
If you see a person who's insecure and covers it up, it can be quite a problem. But the person who is insecure and shows you is quite appealing. They give you just the courage to drop your defenses.
— Isabella Rossellini
Lily Tomlin was one of the early comedy greats who influenced my courage to be the person I am.
— Tracee Ellis Ross
Red carpet is a little bit scary. It's not about expression. It's about taking a pretty picture in a really weird, awkward way, with so many people watching. It's a glamorous part of the job, but it requires its own kind of courage.
— Tracee Ellis Ross
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. 
— Joseph Addison
All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.
— Harold Pinter
There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
— Harold Pinter
Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.
— Michael Franti
Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
— Bear Grylls
I'm sick of all these labels and these manufactured subdivisions of music that don't even exist. And even though I'm pierced myself, I'm sick of everyone equating body piercing with musical courage. If you ask me, it takes a lot more than that.
— Jeff Buckley
Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
— Lech Walesa
For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.
— Jon Favreau
America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.
— Bill Flores
It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut.
— Pico Iyer
The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear.
— Jules Verne
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
— Virgil
I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.
— Michael T. Flynn
People have responded to my stories so well. They come up after a show and say things like, 'Your album really helped me,' or 'I have stage four cancer. I'm terminally ill.' Somebody told me it gave them the courage to die.
— Tig Notaro
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
— Gary Oldman
I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
— Harrison Ford
I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.
— Tim O'Brien
I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are.
— Mohsin Hamid
Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I realise that a novel and a film are different mediums. As artistes, we need to respect other artistes. It also needs a lot of courage to take risks to experiment and interpret known literary works.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Trump has the courage to stand up to Wall Street, to the K Street lobbyists, and say our trade deals have not been best for the ordinary, average citizen American.
— Virgil Goode
If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window.
— Kirk Cameron
Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.
— Kirk Cameron
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
— William Hurt
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
— Pierre Corneille
Being able to hear someone say, 'I found an incredible job on The Muse,' or 'It gave me courage to make a career change,' that's the motivating factor.
— Kathryn Minshew
We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.
— J. D. Vance
I'm slowly working up the courage to sing in front of other people, but I can carry a tune. I do some mean karaoke.
— Julia Stiles
The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.
— Ellen Key
It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance.
— Ellen Key
We can score political points. We can try to advance some important initiatives. But at some point, it takes sober-minded, responsible conservative leaders to identify when you've pushed as far as you can and to have the courage to go back and face the electorate and explain to them why you voted the way you did.
— Todd Young
Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc.
— Ellen Key
If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.
— Ellen Key