Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
You've got to admire my courage going into a picture where the dog is a star. It takes a brave man to play opposite one.
Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.
When I wrap my hands, I do it for my family. I owe my courage to them and also my success. That's why I fight.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
Have the courage of your desire.
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.
Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.
I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
Being gifted needs courage.
I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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.
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.
The thing is, when I feel like I have to lose weight, the opposite happens. I remember stuffing loads of chocolate on the plane to the shoot, and I thought, 'Why don't you have the courage to show up in a body that's natural, not overly worked out?'
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
In carrying out every aspect of our work, CIA officers are guided by a professional ethos that is the sum of our abiding principles, core values, and highest aspirations. These include service, integrity, excellence, courage, teamwork, and stewardship. Sacrifice, too, is an inescapable part of our mission.
It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.
It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.
Sometimes the rewards of risk don't leave us wrecked. Sometimes we find our passion, our purpose, courage, connection, and comfort. Every good thing in our lives is a direct result of risk.
It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process.
Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.
We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.
Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is.
I'm grateful to the LGBTQ community for giving me the courage to write music about who I am and not just about my sexual orientation.