Courage Quotes - Page 25

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

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

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

As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that wasn't an option. On the other hand, I probably lacked the courage to do so, even if it was an option.

It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.

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

I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

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

Voters are fed up with politicians like Sen. McConnell who show themselves vacant of any moral compass or patriotic courage, and whose public statements are guided by just one metric - which team you are on.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

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.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.

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

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.