3 December 2020 Nicholas M. Butler Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
3 December 2020 Bill Rancic I’m a big fan of small business ownership. I think it’s the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
3 December 2020 Xi Jinping During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
3 December 2020 Harper Lee Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
3 December 2020 Bart Starr Anyone can support a team that is winning – it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
3 December 2020 Marlon Brando The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
3 December 2020 Bear Grylls 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.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
3 December 2020 Laura Linney Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked – but it’s immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
3 December 2020 James Lane Allen 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.
3 December 2020 Donald O'Connor They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.
3 December 2020 Bob Filner Rosa Parks’ courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
3 December 2020 Bill Hunter There’s no mystique to acting. It’s only common sense – and a bit of courage.
3 December 2020 E. F. Schumacher Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
3 December 2020 Clay Aiken My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
3 December 2020 Andre Norton As for courage and will – we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Hacker I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
3 December 2020 Bill Frist The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.
3 December 2020 Portia de Rossi You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don’t think you are gay. It’s enough to drive you crazy.
3 December 2020 Mercy Otis Warren The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
3 December 2020 Christopher Morley The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
3 December 2020 Tony Randall There’s only one thing worse than a man who doesn’t have strong likes and dislikes, and that’s a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.
