To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
Senator Walsh has a long history of fighting for Montanans, both at home and in combat. He deserves respect for his courage on our behalf.
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.
People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.
I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children.
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
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.
War is fear cloaked in courage.
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.
Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.
Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.
