What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures. Scott Walker
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. Andre Malraux
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. Clare Boothe Luce
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. Leo Rosten
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. Thomas Hardy
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. Benito Mussolini
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. Joseph Conrad
Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met. David Cameron
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. Plautus
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. Edward Gibbon
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. David Ben-Gurion
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. Clay Aiken
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. Lewis Mumford
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. Andre Norton
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. Erwin Rommel
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. Jean Baudrillard
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. Grace Paley