Courage quotes

I would kiss you, had I the courage.

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.