Courage quotes

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.