My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.

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

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

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