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" Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line. "

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" The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times. "

" One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality. "

Kenneth Branagh

" We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together. "

Valerie Jarrett

" When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most. "

Drew Gilpin Faust

" It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development. "

Frances Hesselbein

" The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular. "

" Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. "

Delmore Schwartz

" Every man of courage is a man of his word. "

Pierre Corneille

" Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you. "

" 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. "

George Bernard Shaw

" During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened. "

" I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are. "

" A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do. "

" I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov. "

" When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage. "

Candice Millard

" You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage. "

" Do I think human beings are meant to be in 40-year-long monogamous, faithful, relationships? No, No, No. Whoever said they were? Only the Bible or something. No one ever said that was a good idea. "

" Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back. "

Thomas a Kempis

" I've always dreaded the sea - in fact, I get terribly seasick. "

" It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Being able to hear someone say, 'I found an incredible job on The Muse,' or 'It gave me courage to make a career change,' that's the motivating factor. "

Kathryn Minshew

" The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today. "

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

" 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. "

" I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'm learning to let it happen in the moment. American actors are much better at that than British actors. If I knew how to trust myself, I would have been much more relaxed. "

" You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.' "

" The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born. "

Malala Yousafzai

" Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. "

" When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end. "

Eamon de Valera

" Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail. "