“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.”
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“We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.”
“I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.”
“People don't follow titles, they follow courage.”
“Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.”
“Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.”
“Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.”
“I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.”
“Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.”
“To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.”
“There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.”
“Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.”
“There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.”
“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.”
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.”
“I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.”
“No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.”
“Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.”
“America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.”
“And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.”
“Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.”