“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.”
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“Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.”
“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.”
“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.”
“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”
“He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.”
“The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.”
“The more wit the less courage.”
“Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.”
“The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.”
“Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.”
“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”
“Courage easily finds its own eloquence.”
“Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.”
“What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?”
“No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.”
“I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.”
“It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.”
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
“Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.”
“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.”
“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”
“We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.”
“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.”