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3 December 2020 Jean Paul

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

3 December 2020 Harry Reid

It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama’s strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn’t the easy thing.

3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman

Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

3 December 2020 Bryan Miller

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

3 December 2020 William Wells Brown

People don’t follow titles, they follow courage.

3 December 2020 Dean Koontz

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

3 December 2020 Alexandre Vinet

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

3 December 2020 William Samuel Johnson

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

3 December 2020 Judith Rossner

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It’s harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

3 December 2020 James Callaghan

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.

3 December 2020 Kitty Kelley

I admired Eugene McCarthy’s courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the ‘Washington Post,’ I remained an admirer.

3 December 2020 Evander Holyfield

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

3 December 2020 James Robinson

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

3 December 2020 Horace

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

3 December 2020 Jeff Ament

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it’s hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

3 December 2020 Marvin Olasky

On sensitive issues, talk isn’t cheap – it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

3 December 2020 Tommy Douglas

Courage, my friends ’tis not too late to build a better world.

3 December 2020 Marie Antoinette

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

3 December 2020 Linda Ellerbee

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

3 December 2020 Kenneth L. Pike

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

3 December 2020 Walter Lord

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage – not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

3 December 2020 John Bunyan

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

3 December 2020 Oriana Fallaci

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

3 December 2020 Vittorio Alfieri

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

3 December 2020 Patrick Campbell

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

3 December 2020 Josephus Daniels

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

3 December 2020 Alfred North Whitehead

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

3 December 2020 Leo Rosten

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

3 December 2020 Kirstie Alley

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

3 December 2020 Michael Hutchence

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that’s where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

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