Courage quotes

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

Sep-11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.