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The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

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.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

If we can not 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.

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can not limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

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

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

It is up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You are either courageous or not. You have to find a way.