Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.
~ Timothy Dalton
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
~ Oscar Wilde
To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
~ Olga Kurylenko
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
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
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.
~ Josefina Vazquez Mota
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
~ Mignon Mclaughlin
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
~ Samuel Johnson
You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
I would kiss you, had I the courage.
~ Edouard Manet
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.
~ Edward Hirsch
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
~ James A. Michener
Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.
~ Suze Orman
I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.
~ George Michael
You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.
~ Estelle
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.
~ Isabella Rossellini
We can score political points. We can try to advance some important initiatives. But at some point, it takes sober-minded, responsible conservative leaders to identify when you've pushed as far as you can and to have the courage to go back and face the electorate and explain to them why you voted the way you did.
~ Todd Young
You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.
~ Liz Phair
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
You have to have courage to be obedient to God.
~ Charles Stanley
We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.
~ Colin Firth
You can't test courage cautiously.
~ Annie Dillard
It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
~ Zoe Saldana
I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
~ Sally Phillips
You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage.
~ John Cornyn
Yes, you must have the courage of being free.
~ Jose Carreras
As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
~ Antony Sher
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
~ Jalal Talabani
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.
~ Jay-Z
I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.
~ Rihanna
It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
~ Rita Rudner
There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.
~ Tahj Mowry
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
~ Maya Angelou
I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
~ Louis C. K.
The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
~ Valentino Rossi