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Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, and your indefatigability [to Saddam Hussein]
George Galloway

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
Bernard Baruch

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel

It takes courage to push things forward.
Mo Mowlam

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert G Ingersoll

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S Truman

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
Elizabeth Taylor

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.
Timothy Dalton

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
Edward Albert

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickover

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticise.
Elizabeth Harrison

The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.
Paulo Coelho

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Dame Edith Sitwell

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
Barry Lopez

A true friend... adventures boldly, takes all things patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
Stephen Butler Leacock

Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler

We are bound no longer by the straightjacket of the past [and] nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
Douglas Macarthur

The red badge of courage.
Stephan Crane

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman

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

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable
Leigh Hunt

Courage is found in unlikely places.
J R R Tolkien

Sometimes you have something that is so good, you never want to let go - it encourages you to get greedy!
Derek Jeter

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind. It takes more courage to take a blow than give one. It takes more courage to try and talk things through than to start a war.
Mahatma Gandhi

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
John Stuart Mill

The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a very defensible and quite courageous pro-European. These are both policies he shares with us.
Vince Cable

Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway

Bart, having never received any words of encouragement myself, I'm not sure how they're supposed to sound. But here goes: I believe in you.
Lisa Simpson

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Paul Tillich

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of oneself.
Charlie Chaplin

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Mickey Mantle

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.
Jim Stovall

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

This act is a rallying call to people of all faiths and none, to encourage them to feel that there is something that can be done [on camping in York Minster]
John Sentamu

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

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Joseph Addison

From the true antagonist, illimitable courage is transmitted to you
Franz Kafka

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and
Brian Adams

It feels good to show some courage.
Joe Namath

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

She worked hard to be as inclusive as possible and encouraged those who were at the edge of society and politics to become involved to change things for the better [on Mo Mowlam]
Peter Hain

There will be many stories of our times written, many forgotten, but they are nonetheless courageous for it.
Crazy Horse

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden



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