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.
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
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.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
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.
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
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.
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.
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
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.