. . . that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.
It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
If we emphasize the life and works of our greatest contributors. . . people will come to realize that moral courage is bravery of the highest type, and America will be called the "Champion of Peace. "
Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping.
In the absence of fear, there can be no courage.
Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [. . . ] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.
I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.
The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.
Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks. . . An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.