3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
3 December 2020 Barbara Cook Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff… And it does take courage.
3 December 2020 Daniel J. Boorstin The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
3 December 2020 Scott Hamilton Without strength and courage it’s really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you’re alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
3 December 2020 George Weinberg The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.
3 December 2020 Tahar Ben Jelloun Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
3 December 2020 Ginnifer Goodwin It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.
3 December 2020 Eamon de Valera When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
3 December 2020 Michael D. Higgins Through the inspiration of Vaclav’s words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.
3 December 2020 Juan Ruiz 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.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
3 December 2020 Sydney Smith Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
3 December 2020 Jeff Koons I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger.
3 December 2020 Dame Edith Evans 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.
3 December 2020 Michael Servetus In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.
3 December 2020 Kerry Washington That’s what acting is – it’s about… having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters’ lives.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
3 December 2020 Tadao Ando At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
3 December 2020 Stanislaus I Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
3 December 2020 Ai Weiwei The ‘Bird’s Nest’ National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of ‘fair competition.’ It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.
3 December 2020 Abu Bakar Bashir There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Banneker Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
