Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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.
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
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.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.
A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
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.
I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.
There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.
What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.