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All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
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
When I moved to the East Village in the late seventies, I wanted to be a street performer, so I practiced daily. I never did work up the skills or the courage to perform on the street, though.
— Steve Buscemi
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.
— Orhan Pamuk
You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.
— Liz Phair
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
I think a lot of people may have a unique insight or some idea that they feel could be a great solution for a particular problem, but for some reason never have a chance to try or never have the courage or maybe the self-doubt. Really, it's best just to remain naive and continue to work on things and see if people have the same problems.
— Chad Hurley
Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
— Caitlin Moran
It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?
— Regina Brett
'White Material' is about courage and craziness.
— Claire Denis
I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.
— Jim DeMint
What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.
— Jim DeMint
When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.
— Charles Stanley
You have to have courage to be obedient to God.
— Charles Stanley
I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.
— Susana Martinez
When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.
— Ricky Williams
I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
— Gail Sheehy
I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big successes and big failures.
— Romola Garai
The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. They are more inured to privation, more patient than Europeans, who, on these two points, cannot be compared to them.
— Marquis de Lafayette
I don't - you know, I'm very disillusioned with our political system. If we don't wake up in America and realize that we have to vote out of our courage and integrity for candidates who reflect our own beatitudes, and not the beatitudes of the war machine and the corporations, we are - we're doomed.
— Cindy Sheehan
Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.
— Maria Semple
I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
— Elia Kazan
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.
— Colin Firth
I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.
— John Rhys-Davies
Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.
— John Rhys-Davies
Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.
— Rahm Emanuel
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
Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
— Bob Woodward
I like to go see films that give me courage and hope.
— Isabelle Adjani
To say that I could manipulate one of the men who has shown the most courage before the Cuban government, who gets beaten every day, who did a hunger strike that freed political prisoners... I think that's absurd.
— Joe Garcia
It shows courage, and it shows commitment to move beyond the status-quo politics of rhetoric, which is all the Cuban-American community has received from any party for the last half century.
— Joe Garcia
Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
— Gary Hamel
When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody.
— Troy Polamalu
In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.
— Li Keqiang
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.
— Jeff Koons
I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
— Ira Sachs
It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.
— Ginnifer Goodwin
If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism - then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors.
— Juan Williams
To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
— Janeane Garofalo
In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
— Vikram Seth
Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.
— Tariq Ramadan
Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.
— Mary Gaitskill
For the men and women of the FBI, bravery is reflected not only in the physical courage often necessary in the job. It can be seen in the courage of conviction, in the courage to act with wisdom in the face of fear, and in the courage it takes to admit mistakes and move forward.
— Robert Mueller
What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.
— Scott Walker
For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'
— Anton Corbijn
If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
— Queen Rania of Jordan
Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
— Loretta Young
You can't test courage cautiously.
— Annie Dillard
I embraced everything that I thought would hold me back from pursuing my dreams and used my insecurities to give me the courage to inspire and advocate for others who possessed many of the same insecurities I had.
— La'Porsha Renae
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
— Oriana Fallaci
It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
— Oriana Fallaci
It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
— Vanessa Paradis
If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.
— Liya Kebede
I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.
— Geri Halliwell
The thing is, when I feel like I have to lose weight, the opposite happens. I remember stuffing loads of chocolate on the plane to the shoot, and I thought, 'Why don't you have the courage to show up in a body that's natural, not overly worked out?'
— Geri Halliwell
I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.
— Renee Fleming
In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
— Carli Lloyd
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
— Kathryn Bigelow
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
— Dean Koontz
Alex Dumas was a consummate warrior and a man of great conviction and moral courage. He was renowned for his strength, his swordsmanship, his bravery, and his knack for pulling victory out of the toughest situations. But he was known, too, for his profane back talk and his problems with authority.
— Tom Reiss
It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
— Zoe Saldana
I love actors that are brave, that are courageous. And courage to me is not the absence of fear, it's the presence of fear, and they go to places that really scare them, because as an audience, that's where you feel danger.
— Derek Cianfrance
What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
— Dan Rather
I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I'm enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.
— Alice Munro
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
— Geraldine Brooks
You've got to find a way to relate to people. I just did an improvised episode for Joe Swanberg's new Netflix show, 'Easy,' and it was a huge learning curve for me and taught me so much about fear and courage. But when you're present in the moment, the audience, it's incomparable.
— Gugu Mbatha-Raw
I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
— Octavia E. Butler
My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.
— Taya Kyle
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.
— Diane Ackerman
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.
— David Whyte
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
— Jean Paul
In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.
— George Lois
My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
— Laura Mvula
When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
— Kirstie Alley
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
— Ian Mcewan
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
— Plautus
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
— Plautus
I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.
— Emily Mortimer
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
I used to be so intimidated by spin classes. I'd always go by and see people on their bikes looking so intense. But one day my sister and I worked up the courage to go in, and now we're hooked!
— Alexa Vega
There are real consequences when women speak out. It's really dangerous, and it takes real courage. We are still speaking out against a white male majority. Forget the glass ceiling. We haven't even broken the glass floor!
— Alexandra Fuller
I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
— Sally Phillips
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
— Zora Neale Hurston
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
— Ben Okri
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
Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
I think there's something about a character facing the huge problems and challenges of the contemporary world and meeting them with - head on with courage, allowing for darkness and mistake, but ultimately always moral. That's incredibly, incredibly inspiring, and that's honestly what I think.
— Paul Greengrass
Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty. 
— Bruce Feiler
Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.
— Klaus Schwab
Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
— Bianca Jagger
Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.
— Naomi Watts
It is past time for Democrats and Republicans to join together to create a bipartisan coalition for courage and common sense.
— Linda McMahon
I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered the Library Theatre up the road. So I plucked up courage and asked if I could watch rehearsals. It was like Heaven.
— Lesley Nicol
I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that.
— Norman Lloyd
When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.'
— Stacy Schiff
Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
— Thomas a Kempis
My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the day, I want people to see a good protagonist struggle against serious odds and do so with courage and honor and integrity.
— Brad Thor
Daredevil was known as 'The Man Without Fear,' and I just thought, 'Well, I don't think that's very interesting.' I don't think it's very interesting to watch someone who's incapable of feeling fear. It also removes from the palate my favorite character attribute, which is courage. If you're not afraid, you can't exercise courage.
— Charlie Cox
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
You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.
— Portia de Rossi
Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.
— Paul Johnson
We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.
— Guy Laliberte
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
— James Allen
My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage.
— Marv Levy
It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
— Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who fights Amazons admires their courage and beauty, and they want to be allies of the Amazon; they don't wanna kill them.
— Adrienne Mayor
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
— Kailash Satyarthi
How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
— Anna Held
For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.
— Jeff Greenfield
Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.
— John Eldredge
What I hope my writing reflects... is a sense of the connections between all human beings... and a different perspective on the true nature of courage. For me, those are things worth exploring and writing about.
— Chris Crutcher
I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
— Tadao Ando
At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
— Tadao Ando
You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage.
— John Cornyn
It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, quiet, and delicate manner does not go still further.
— Richard Jefferies
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
— Gerry Adams
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
Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.
— Jaclyn Smith
With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.
— Jeff Ament
With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I sing this part,' or, 'I want to play guitar.'
— Jeff Ament
Political courage requires clarity.
— Joe Klein
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
— Edward Gibbon
Yes, you must have the courage of being free.
— Jose Carreras
Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.
— Jose Carreras
I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.
— Andy Garcia
Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.
— Alice Oswald
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
— John W. Gardner
As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it.
— Apollonius of Tyana
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
— Jean Baudrillard
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
— Marilyn Hacker
People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
— Jim Valvano
My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.
— Pardis Sabeti
The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.
— George Weinberg
I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
— Saina Nehwal
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
— Jean Anouilh
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
— Jean Anouilh
When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.
— Drew Gilpin Faust
I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
— Tadashi Yanai
I have decided to make a personal message to David Haye. I want him to fight me, to be a man. I wish there will be enough excitement, pressure and courage for David Haye to fight me.
— Wladimir Klitschko
Senator Walsh has a long history of fighting for Montanans, both at home and in combat. He deserves respect for his courage on our behalf.
— Steve Bullock
Being gifted needs courage.
— Georg Brandes
A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.
— Sun Myung Moon
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
— Stokely Carmichael
Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.
— Athol Fugard
Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
— Kenneth L. Pike
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
— Frances Wright
It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
— Omar Bongo
If I truly had the courage of my convictions, I would be a full-blown comic novelist.
— Petina Gappah
Courage is action, not talk.
— Jeff Rich
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.
— Stephen Leacock
Courage is always rewarded.
— Kenny Loggins
Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.
— Emile Hirsch
I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.
— Lee Myung-bak
Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.
— Donald McCaig
Deciding taste is egotistical, but that's how taste is established, by somebody having the courage to say, 'I don't want to sell that.'
— Stanley Marcus
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.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
— Geraldo Rivera
There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taking so much abuse for so long. I was only seven years old, but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the white folks were handing the poor Jewish family whom I worked for.
— Louis Armstrong
Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.
— Mira Sorvino
We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
— Valerie Jarrett
I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post,' I remained an admirer.
— Kitty Kelley
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
I'll know how to die with courage that is easier than living. 
— Georg Buchner
President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.
— Ken Salazar
I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.
— Shekhar Kapur
I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India.
— Shekhar Kapur
Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
— Wadah Khanfar
I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.
— Joe Scarborough
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.
— Nicolas Berggruen
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
— Mary Wesley
Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
— John M. McHugh
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
The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.
— Peter Fonda
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
— Lindsay Duncan
Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.
— Evander Holyfield
When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.
— Della Reese
People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
— Gabrielle Giffords
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
— Jerry Costello
As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
— Antony Sher
I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.
— John Slattery
Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.
— Douglas Leone
I often think you need a lot of courage to be in the acting business. The job itself can be incredibly challenging for various reasons. Sometimes it's impossible and requires sheer guts.
— Sarah Alexander
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
— Nawal El Saadawi
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
— Branch Rickey
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.
— Bill Frist
Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
— John Milius
That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.
— Diana Quick
You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.
— Paul Robeson
I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.
— Elisabeth Rohm
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.
— Pericles
But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.
— Michael Hutchence
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
What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.
— Miguel Syjuco
On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
— Marvin Olasky
I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
— Said Sayrafiezadeh
I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody. 
— Q-Tip
Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.
— Linda McCartney
I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.
— Robert Wagner
There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.
— Tony Randall
I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.
— Carol Leifer
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
Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
— Zach Wamp
All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.
— Jimmy Scott
Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances it makes chances. 
— George Matthew Adams
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.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.
— Emily Greene Balch
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
— Robert Dale Owen
Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored, and we should put every effort into treating their symptoms.
— Marcia Angell
I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.
— Antonio Munoz Molina
All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
— Wadada Leo Smith
My mom being raised in England, her father always wanted to pursue the arts and wanted to have a stage career in England. According to her, he never had the courage to actually pursue it full-time. I think that my grandfather's parents thought that it wasn't a formidable job to have.
— Jovan Adepo
You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.
— Florence Henderson
I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
— Wadada Leo Smith
In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
— Daniel Dennett
I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current that runs through all that is. Not by will or by choice. Not as a benediction but because there are laws even God must obey.
— Tracy K. Smith
Back in school, there was this guy who had a huge crush on me. One day, when he mustered the courage to propose to me on a Rose Day, my friends burst out laughing right in front of him. I'm sure we all have had such experiences, and I've had crushes in the past. Right now, all I can think about is my films and deliver my best.
— Pooja Hegde
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
— Jalal Talabani
To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.
— Dale Murphy
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
— Mary Gordon
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.
— Peter Carey
I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.
— John Prendergast
I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in Northern Uganda who now are helping other former child soldiers return to civilian life.
— John Prendergast
As a person, I am someone who wants to give my the best in every take. I wouldn't say it was easy for me to get into the industry because I come from a background where no one has been in films. But I do believe if you work hard, you will get noticed. Modeling gave me that courage to stand in front of the camera.
— Pooja Hegde
The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.
— Mary Daly
When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn't interested at all. I liked her from afar for ages, and when I eventually got the courage and told her, and she wasn't into me.
— Luke Pasqualino
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.
— John Burns
The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.
— Christopher Monckton
It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.
— Harry Reid
For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.
— Ann McLane Kuster
Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.
— Elias Hicks
The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It's in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it's in the courage of every person who changed.
— Cheryl Mills
Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.
— Cecelia Ahern
My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey, and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.
— Lucy Walker
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
— Marlon Brando
In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.
— Michael Servetus
I grew up in a very westernised environment and went to a private American school. But my personality was shy and quiet, and I wanted to wear the hijab but didn't have the courage, as I knew my friends would talk me out of it.
— Leila Aboulela
It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.
— Emeli Sande
As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
— Bob Schaffer
He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.
— Michael Kinsley
Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.
— Richard Paul Evans
We know the Republicans are happy to keep the country in the dark, and if we Democrats are to recapture the power necessary to assert our values, we must find the energy, courage, creativity and unity to map out a brighter day for the people we sincerely want to serve.
— John Yarmuth
Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person.
— Joe Haldeman
Music was always a big part of my family. Only a few of us had the talent - or the courage - to walk out on a stage.
— Patty Loveless
It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.
— Shari Sebbens
I want to work as hard as I can. But I also want six kids! It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.
— Shari Sebbens
I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection of 'Kinder- und Hausmarchen' ('Children's and Household Tales') was first published in 1812. The book was not intended for young readers.
— Kate Bernheimer
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
— Albert Claude
For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
— James T. Walsh
I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.
— Mo Yan
I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.
— Monica Ali
My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo was very strong-minded and brave, and I was shy and kind of a wuss, everyplace but in my own home. I wanted to be Jo. She was my alter ego. I think reading that book gave me courage.
— Rhea Perlman
When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he said to me, 'That's a great film, brother. Thank you for your courage in making it.' I plotzed.
— David Alan Basche
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
— Hallie Ephron
The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
— Dan Coats
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. 
— Ray Stannard Baker
Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism.
— Jonas Gahr Store
Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.
— Tom Lantos