Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love. Ovid
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician’s spinal cord into bright yellow jelly. Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome
My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size … has ever surpassed my courage. Peter Paul Rubens
It takes courage to look inside yourself and even more courage to write it for other people to see. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s5e4: Nor the Battle to the Strong
Today we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind needed in battle, but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics, so that we can show the world that we are not afraid of the future. Elizabeth II, Christmas broadcast 1957
Thousands in a tightly packed column marched through the streets in the centre of Amsterdam while the Germans circled round them in tanks. Of course the demonstrators weren’t armed, yet they found a weapon in marching and singing. So they marched along the Rosenbach singing the Internationale. Gerben Wagenar
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. Douglas Malloch
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. Epicurus
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert F Kennedy
Remember there is no courage without fear. Edge of Tomorrow 2014 starring Tom Cruise & Emily Blunt & Bill Paxton & Brendan Gleeson & Kick Gurry & Dragomir Mrsic & Charlotte Riley & Jonas Armstrong & Franz Darmeh & Marianne Jean-Baptiste & Masayoshi Haneda et al, director Doug Liman, Sergeant
Son, remember your courage with each step. Spartan mother to son
Talent is luck; the important thing in life is courage. Manhattan 1979 starring Woody Allen & Dianne Keaton & Michael Murphy & Mariel Hemingway & Meryl Stree & Anne Byrne & Michael O'Donoghue & Wallace Shawn & Karen Ludwig et al, director Woody Allen
The courage we need is not the courage, the fortitude, to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies, to do our job by a boss who has usurped power and is acting as an outlaw government, it is the courage at last to face honestly the truth and reality of what we are doing in the world, and act responsibly to change it. Daniel Ellsberg
But never have this authentic courage, this everyday courage, which consists of sacrificing your personality completely to become effective. Grin Without a Cat aka The Base of the Air is Red, 1977
Creativity takes courage. Henri Matise
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. Abraham Lincoln
A final argument for broad freedom of expression is its effect on the character of individuals in a society. Citizens in a free society must have courage – the courage to hear not only unwelcome political speech but novel and shocking ideas in science and the arts. Anthony Lewis, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment, 2007
War puts the stamp of nobility on those who have the courage to meet it. Benito Mussolini
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. Orison Swett Marden
I used to think that dispossession and courage are twins in the mind of a refugee. They are not. Dispossession is the end. Courage, I fear, can be as pathetic as it is irrelevant. Robert Fisk, cited This is Not a Movie, 2019
I’m speaking from London. It is late afternoon and the people of London are preparing for the night. Everyone is anxious to get home before darkness falls, before our nightly visitors arrive. London Can Take It ***** short 1940
We haven’t had a quiet night now for more than five weeks. ibid.
The nightly siege of London has begun. The city is dressed for battle. Here they come. ibid.
They are fused together not by fear but by a surging spirit of courage the like of which the world has never known. ibid.