Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
One man with courage is a majority.
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.
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.
I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.
What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
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.
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Have the courage to act instead of react.
