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" Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness. "

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" Back in school, there was this guy who had a huge crush on me. One day, when he mustered the courage to propose to me on a Rose Day, my friends burst out laughing right in front of him. I'm sure we all have had such experiences, and I've had crushes in the past. Right now, all I can think about is my films and deliver my best. "

" In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel. "

" Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. "

" I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides. "

Joe Scarborough

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

" I actually learned that you should never give up, and if you love something, take courage and absolutely go after it. "

" Sometimes you have to go through the wilderness before you get to the Promised Land. "

" 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. "

David Ben-Gurion

" So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there. "

" 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

" From my youngest brother to immigrant women to black queer folks, those are the people who keep me going. When I think about their various acts of courage, it reminds me that I am not alone and that we can do even more, and we deserve more, so we have to keep going. "

" Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith. "

Emily Greene Balch

" The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. "

Mignon McLaughlin

" Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing. "

Karen Salmansohn

" No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that. "

" 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. "

" If I'd had more courage, I would've pursued a less commercial path. Maybe I would've gone into musical theater. "

" Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity. "

Richard L. Evans

" Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. "

Omar N. Bradley

" 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

" To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing. "

" What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance. "

" Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement. "

" 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

" If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. "

" It takes courage to pull the ball down and reverse field and do some of the crazy things that Favre and Manziel do. There's going to be consequences when sometimes it doesn't work out. But it takes a tremendous amount of guts and courage to go make a play when there's nothing there instead of throwing the ball away. "

" Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. "

" I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly. "

" Living authentically isn't an act of courage as much as an act of survival. "

" War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying. "