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" 'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams. "

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" There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions. "

Jairam Ramesh

Courage

Decisions

Election

" It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating. "

" If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it. "

" We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. "

" When I moved to the East Village in the late seventies, I wanted to be a street performer, so I practiced daily. I never did work up the skills or the courage to perform on the street, though. "

" It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. "

e. e. cummings

You

Teen

" Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

Friends

Courage

Strength

" Daredevil was known as 'The Man Without Fear,' and I just thought, 'Well, I don't think that's very interesting.' I don't think it's very interesting to watch someone who's incapable of feeling fear. It also removes from the palate my favorite character attribute, which is courage. If you're not afraid, you can't exercise courage. "

" We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. "

" People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. "

" So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets. "

" But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings. "

" Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard. "

" Courage means standing next to someone you don't always agree with for the betterment of the country. "

" It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up. "

Ginnifer Goodwin

Heart

Growing Up

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

" And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family. "

" Let your customers be your partners; let your vendors be your employees. What's necessary in this transformation more than anything else is courage and a willingness to change. "

" You have to have courage to be obedient to God. "

" Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone. "

" 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. "

" I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else. "

" It requires more courage to suffer than to die. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

Than

Suffer

" 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. "

" They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice. "

Donald O'Connor

Time

Horse

" He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery! "

" There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage. "

" To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. "

" The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. "

" If you see a person who's insecure and covers it up, it can be quite a problem. But the person who is insecure and shows you is quite appealing. They give you just the courage to drop your defenses. "