Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.
I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.
I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice: "only today I happen to have a headache.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid...for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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.
Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
The brave man is not he who feels nofear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insis tupon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten.
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.