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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.

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.

Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.

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.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

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.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.