599 private quotes tagged courage

“If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.” — Brian Baird

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“The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.” — Dean Smith

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“What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.” — Eddie Marsan

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“Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.” — Leon Blum

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“Necessity does the work of courage.” — Nicholas M. Butler

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“Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.” — Barbara Cook

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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” — Joseph Chamberlain

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“A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.” — Charles Wilson

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“My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.” — Jenna Jameson

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“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.” — Romeo LeBlanc

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“We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.” — Barry Lopez

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“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.” — Nancy Keenan

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“People don't follow titles, they follow courage.” — William Wells Brown

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“Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.” — William Slim

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“Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.” — Whitney M. Young

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“Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.” — James Robinson

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“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.” — Prescott Bush

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“Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.” — Stanislaus I

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“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.” — Coventry Patmore

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“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.” — Rick Perry

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“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.” — Hillary Clinton

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“America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.” — Rick Perry

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“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.” — Andrew Shue

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“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.” — Frances Perkins

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