3 December 2020 Ann Bancroft A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it’s starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
3 December 2020 Jim DeMint I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.
3 December 2020 Anna Akhmatova Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children’s children, pure on their tongues, and free.
3 December 2020 Major Taylor These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
3 December 2020 Guy Laliberte We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.
3 December 2020 Rene Cassin 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.
3 December 2020 David Ben-Gurion Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
3 December 2020 Helen Slater It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.
3 December 2020 Helen Hayes Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn’t original sin. He’s born with the tragedy that he has to grow up… a lot of people don’t have the courage to do it.
3 December 2020 William J. H. Boetcker You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence.
3 December 2020 Susana Martinez As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask ‘Are you Susana?’ and they run up and give me a hug.
3 December 2020 John Quincy Adams Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
3 December 2020 Romeo LeBlanc 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
