“There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.”
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“Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.”
“I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.”
“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.”
“Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.”
“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.”
“The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.”
“Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.”
“The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.”
“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.”
“My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.”
“Every man of courage is a man of his word.”
“A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.”
“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.”
“But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.”
“Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.”
“Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.”
“When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.”
“Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.”
“At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.”
“It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.”
“Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.”
“Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.”