Courage quotes

The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

Being gifted needs courage.

You can't test courage cautiously.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.