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Physical courage is a great test.

In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.

Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.

No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I do not want to do that.

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

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.

I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.