Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

Delegate to others who have strengths where you don't. But sometimes, you just need to be the one to drive the change when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step. To me, that's courage in action.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.

The younger you are, the more courage and audacity you will have to set long-term goals and be there to personally work towards your vision. You will have the confidence to take risks because you have time by your side. You can bring innovation into everything you do and constantly reinvent yourself.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.

I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I'm enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.

In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.

The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

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.

We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.'

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.

I actually learned that you should never give up, and if you love something, take courage and absolutely go after it.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.