Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
You can't test courage cautiously.
The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.
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.
Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers,...
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
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.
As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
Political courage is not political suicide.
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
I used to be so intimidated by spin classes. I'd always go by and see people on their bikes looking so intense. But one day my sister and I worked up the courage to go in, and now we're hooked!
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
