Sep-11 2001 revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
When I was straight I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is I feel a very worthwhile way to live.
A life lesson for me is how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
To me there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Courage: Great Russian word fit for the songs of our children's children pure on their tongues and free.
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.
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.
Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one it gives eloquence to the mute it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.
War is fear cloaked in courage.
I know that throughout their history the people of the United States defended their freedom their liberty their justice and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.
You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people for the rights of workers and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.
Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.
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.
With courage and character American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
You take a number of small steps which you believe are right thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold cold bath early in the morning? I jump in throw the water cold as ice and after the first plunge I am happy.
Ingenuity plus courage plus work equals miracles.
No I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.