Sobre el coraje

“Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse.”

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

“If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.”

“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

“I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that.”

“Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.”

“I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.”

“We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”

“That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.”

“Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.”

“Bold is not the act of foolishness but the attribute and inner strength to act when others will not so as to move forward not backward.”

“War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.”

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”

“South Africa needs all its people black and white; young and old; Christian, Muslim, Hindu or Jewish. There is a place for all of us provided we have the courage to work together to build that common future.”

“I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.”

“You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”

“I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.”

“How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.”

“Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.”

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

“Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life... It would be cliche to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.”

“It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.”

“Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.”

“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy," Wren said. "It's the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.”

“Part of courage is simple consistency.”

“Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.”