There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Until there are no more hate crimes, no more vicious bullying and ugly slurs, whenever a person comes out - whether that person is a celebrity or a 'nobody' - it should be celebrated like the triumph of courage it is.

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.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Change takes courage.

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.

Let your customers be your partners; let your vendors be your employees. What's necessary in this transformation more than anything else is courage and a willingness to change.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out.

I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

I'm grateful to the LGBTQ community for giving me the courage to write music about who I am and not just about my sexual orientation.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

Courage is the birthplace of confidence.

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Being gifted needs courage.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

It takes courage to be an entrepreneur.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel.

I'm sick of all these labels and these manufactured subdivisions of music that don't even exist. And even though I'm pierced myself, I'm sick of everyone equating body piercing with musical courage. If you ask me, it takes a lot more than that.

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.