Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
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.
Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul’s group.
Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.
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.’
The West needs leaders with the courage and the will to fight the scourge of radical Islam.
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.
When I wrap my hands, I do it for my family. I owe my courage to them and also my success. That’s why I fight.
Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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.
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.
Discover your own style. Don’t try to repeat what has already been written – have the courage to do your own thing and don’t be afraid to do something different.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size… has ever surpassed my courage.
Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
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.
My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
It was actually a women’s writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
People don’t follow titles, they follow courage.
One has to have the courage of one’s pessimism.
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
Courage is grace under pressure.
What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others’ stories.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
Political courage is not political suicide.
The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we’ve influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.
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.
Be who you are. It’s easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taking so much abuse for so long. I was only seven years old, but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the white folks were handing the poor Jewish family whom I worked for.
Courage, my friends; ’tis not too late to build a better world.
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 courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it’s very important because it builds up your self-confidence and gives you more courage.
If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
The truth won’t set us free – until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.
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.
The ‘Bird’s Nest’ National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of ‘fair competition.’ It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.
At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.
If I can, in any way, give people the courage to say, ‘Actually, no, the nonsense stops right here,’ then I want to be a part of doing that. Especially if that means that our folks will be more free.
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play – the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
Martin Luther King and Gandhi were not people who failed in self-respect. They were people of hope and great courage, and their courage was disciplined.
