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To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore
Poet · English · 1823 – 1896
Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.
John Boehner
Politician · American · b. 1949
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
Barry Lopez
Author · American · b. 1945
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist · English · 1892 – 1973
One brave deed makes no hero.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Poet · American · 1807 – 1892
I would kiss you, had I the courage.
Edouard Manet
Artist · French · 1832 – 1883
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
John Bunyan
Clergyman · English · 1628 – 1688
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
Walter Lord
Author · American · 1917 – 2002
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester W. Nimitz
Soldier · American · 1885 – 1966
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
John Petit-Senn
Poet · French
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
Neal A. Maxwell
Clergyman · American · 1926 – 2004
When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar, and the lightnings blaze around us it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
Luther Martin
Politician · American · 1748 – 1826
In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.
John L. Phillips
Astronaut · American · b. 1951
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
Leon Blum
Politician · French · 1872 – 1950
People don't follow titles, they follow courage.
William Wells Brown
Activist · American
Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.
Walter Knott
Businessman · American · 1889 – 1981
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.
Mark Pryor
Politician · American · b. 1963
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
Marie Antoinette
Royalty · French · 1755 – 1793
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
Ian Mcewan
Author · British · b. 1948
I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.
Philip Green
Businessman · British · b. 1952
Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
Earl Derr Biggers
Novelist · American · 1884 – 1933
I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.
Bruce Catton
Historian · American · 1899 – 1978
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
David Seabury
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
Lydia M. Child
I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.
Diane Sawyer
Journalist · American · b. 1945
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas M. Butler
Philosopher · American · 1862 – 1947
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.
Alfred P. Sloan
Businessman · American · 1875 – 1966
Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
Munshi Premchand
Writer · Indian · 1880 – 1936
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
Lillian Hellman
Dramatist · American · 1907 – 1984
If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.
Romeo LeBlanc
Politician · Canadian · b. 1927
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer
Publisher · American · 1847 – 1911
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
Pam Brown
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
Jerome Cady
The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.
Diane Feinstein
Politician · American · b. 1933
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.
Antony Sher
Writer · South African · b. 1949
I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.
Megawati Sukarnoputri
This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them.
Gideon Welles
Soldier · American · 1802 – 1878
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Historian · American · 1917 – 2007
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
Archilochus
Poet · Greek
Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Poet · Italian · 1863 – 1938
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
James Robinson
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
Kong Fu Zi
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
H. G. Bohn
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
William J. Slim
I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
Dame Edith Evans
I'm excited about being here in an organization that I grew up rooting for... I'm excited about being an Atlanta Brave and pitching in Game 1.
Tim Hudson
What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
Rand Paul
Courage follows action.
Mack R. Douglas
