Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: courage

Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that wasn't an option. On the other hand, I probably lacked the courage to do so, even if it was an option.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

From my youngest brother to immigrant women to black queer folks, those are the people who keep me going. When I think about their various acts of courage, it reminds me that I am not alone and that we can do even more, and we deserve more, so we have to keep going.

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

If you are fearful, choose courage. If you frequently procrastinate, choose to take action now. If you have always waited for others to lead, use your own initiative.

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.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.

It's easy to give up, and that's the one thing we cannot do. That's what gives me a reason for working: to leave people with a little more courage, with a little hope that has been nourished. Even if, of course, it's going to disappear, whatever touches one isn't lost forever.

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

The West needs leaders with the courage and the will to fight the scourge of radical Islam.

I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.

Every man of courage is a man of his word.