Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

From caring comes courage.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Creativity takes courage.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.

Boldness be my friend.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

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

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free.

To most people, paranoia carries a negative connotation. I believe it is one of the most valuable attributes a leader can have. It is about self-reflection and having the courage, humility, and discipline to constantly ask uncomfortable questions that can potentially poke holes in your strategy and challenge your conventional thinking.

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.