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" I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain. "

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" Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. "

Benjamin Banneker

Courage

Lose

Easy

" Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. "

" You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go. "

" In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. "

" Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others. "

" My dad's life story was a string of kindness. He treated everyone as an equal, whether it was the bank teller or the bank president. He even attributed his survival to the courage of kindness. "

" Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. "

" People don't get involved with local charities or politics because they think it's hard to make a difference and the problem feels overwhelming. But I believe that if all I've time for this year is to write one letter to the local council, it's still worth doing. "

" It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting. "

" I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage. "

" 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. "

" Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. "

" 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. "

" Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck. "

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Courage

You

Success

" Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. "

Christopher Reeve

End

Ocean

" So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. "

" Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

Measure

Perfect

Courage

" You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence. "

William J. H. Boetcker

Courage

Independence

Men

" Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all. "

" When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live. "

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

" You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better. "

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

Life

Better

Courage

" 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. "

" In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage. "

" Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. "

Grace Paley

Fear

Courage

" If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God. "

" The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it. "

" Delegate to others who have strengths where you don't. But sometimes, you just need to be the one to drive the change when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step. To me, that's courage in action. "

" Courage in danger is half the battle. "

" In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years. "