I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.
You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.
When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn't interested at all. I liked her from afar for ages, and when I eventually got the courage and told her, and she wasn't into me.
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored, and we should put every effort into treating their symptoms.
The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
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.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.'
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.
Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
