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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Being gifted needs courage.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.