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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 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

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
W Clement Stone

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt

If you want to encourage the next generation of actors and players then you need to give them the right sort of inspiration.
Sara Gilbert

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

She displayed great courage and deep humanity both in her public life in politics and privately coping with her prolonged medical condition [Mo Mowlam]
Charles Kennedy

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

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

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage.
Pablo Casals

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
Alexander Berkman

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

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

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
Alistair Cooke

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson

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

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene

Courage is one step ahead of fear
Coleman Young

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
Coventry Patmore

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

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Joseph Chamberlain

Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody
Juvenal

The coward and the courageous alike must die
Lucanus

Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi's life. So, you might say that we are encouraged to love. [on loving Padme Amidala]
Anakin Skywalker

By only half-sacking the deputy prime minister at the reshuffle, Tony Blair created this mess by not having the courage or conviction to finish the job
Vince Cable

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill

Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca

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

We are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the President encourages vigorous debate. [On whether they were all 'yes men' and women to the President]
Karen Hughes

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel De Cervantes

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

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

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
D H Lawrence

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help.
Erika Christensen

Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

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

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester W Nimitz

The boats are streamlined, advertisement splattered, potential coffins, and are controlled on a knife-edge balance of courage and sense.
Simon Barnes

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
Billy Graham

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Spiro Agnew

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form
Sinclair Lewis

'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it (Fortitude)
Sir Hugh Walpole

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



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