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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.

This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own spiritual yearnings in the biggest possible context, in such a way that is going to compel us to finally transcend our self-concern. We need to find the heart to come together in such a way that will enable us to face the challenges before us. And to do this, we need a new spirituality. We need a new enlightenment.

This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.

this is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous. You don't sit down and say you're going to be courageous. At the moment of action, you don't see it as a courageous act. Courage is the most hidden thing from your eye or mind until after it's done. There's some inner something that tells you what's right. You know you have to do it to survive as a human being. You have no choice.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.

Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Time will bring healing.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

To boldly go where no one has gone before

To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

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

[To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.

Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to alter during the next fifty years then we must re-embrace Byron’s ideal: the cultured thug.

TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.