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. 685
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. 718
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. 646
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. 647
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. 768
I think there’s a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask! 2.19K
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. 1.78K
America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech. 767
In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential… it’s no different in the financial realm. 1.49K
While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward. 634
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. 647
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. 616
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. 611
