Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the gift of opposition. When it comes, I learn something about my motives. When it comes, I get to test my courage.

Soros has taught me that when you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig. It takes courage to ride a profit with huge leverage.

In reporting, you will often be humbled by the courage others have in telling and trusting you with their tale, no two alike.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.

Necessity does the work of courage.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.

The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'

John Glenn's life will long be remembered for his time in space, his courage, and his service to all Americans.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.