Whatever you do, you need courage.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons. . . but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
You can't test courage cautiously.
Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.
Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.
This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.
The man with courage is a majority.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.
What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.