Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas to take a calculated risk - and to act.

I have no physical courage I've asked for a double.

And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden and reduce the regulatory climate and we're going to get Americans working.

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.

There's only one requirement of any of us and that is to be courageous. Because courage as you might know defines all other human behavior. And I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom to move on in one's inward journey into new realms than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr as it is to be rash in battle.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures and laughter.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor dignity and courage.

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth and truth only prepared to hear all things and decide upon all things according to evidence we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

America needs jobs smaller government less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

Soldiers when committed to a task can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage absolute loyalty to others not letting the task go until it's been done.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right rather than what is easy.

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits express your power and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.

I have the courage of my convictions.

To live we must conquer incessantly we must have the courage to be happy.

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

For this equilibrium now in sight let us trust that mankind as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past will find for itself a new code of ethics common to all made of tolerance of courage and of faith in the Spirit of men.

Audacity augments courage hesitation fear.