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Frances Rodman on courage
Author: Frances Rodman“Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.” -Frances Rodman
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Ai Weiwei on courage
Author: Ai Weiwei“The ‘Bird’s Nest’ National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of ‘fair competition.’ It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.” -Ai Weiwei
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Eamon de Valera on courage
Author: Eamon de Valera“When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.” -Eamon de Valera
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Abu Bakar Bashir on courage
Author: Abu Bakar Bashir“There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.” -Abu Bakar Bashir
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Marie Antoinette on courage
Author: Marie Antoinette“Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?” -Marie Antoinette
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Renee Fleming on courage
Author: Renee Fleming“I’ve always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.” -Renee Fleming
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Tahar Ben Jelloun on courage
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun“Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.” -Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Michael Hutchence on courage
Author: Michael Hutchence“But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that’s where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.” -Michael Hutchence
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Hosea Ballou on courage
Author: Hosea Ballou“Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.” -Hosea Ballou
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Scott Hamilton on courage
Author: Scott Hamilton“Without strength and courage it’s really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you’re alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.” -Scott Hamilton
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Kathryn Bigelow on courage
Author: Kathryn Bigelow“Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.” -Kathryn Bigelow
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Ian Mcewan on courage
Author: Ian Mcewan“One has to have the courage of one’s pessimism.” -Ian Mcewan
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Ben Okri on courage
Author: Ben Okri“One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.” -Ben Okri
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Marlon Brando on courage
Author: Marlon Brando“The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.” -Marlon Brando
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John Petit-Senn on courage
Author: John Petit-Senn“True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.” -John Petit-Senn
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Jean Anouilh on courage
Author: Jean Anouilh“Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.” -Jean Anouilh
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Scott Walker on courage
Author: Scott Walker“What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.” -Scott Walker
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Sydney Smith on courage
Author: Sydney Smith“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.” -Sydney Smith
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Jeff Goodell on courage
Author: Jeff Goodell“Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn’t show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.” -Jeff Goodell
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Ginnifer Goodwin on courage
Author: Ginnifer Goodwin“It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.” -Ginnifer Goodwin
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Timothy Dalton on courage
Author: Timothy Dalton“Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.” -Timothy Dalton
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James Hillman on courage
Author: James Hillman“The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It’s astounding. Maybe they can’t see or they can’t hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They’re models of courage, in a strange way.” -James Hillman
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Jane Campion on courage
Author: Jane Campion“I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it’s not part of a sensible way of living. It’s a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it’s a path of great courage.
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Sharon Stone on courage
Author: Sharon Stone“TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day’s lines while you are shooting today’s scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.” -Sharon Stone
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Daniel Ellsberg on courage
Author: Daniel Ellsberg“There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that’s