The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. 636
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. 724
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten. 599
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others. 586
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have. 566
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. 559
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. 1.42K
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. 625
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. 1.64K
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. 557
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. 599
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot. 2.17K
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge. 899