I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

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.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

When you really believe in God it gives you a courage a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do and you get your courage back which is what's important.

The most important thing for me was to never ever ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking The people who need to know I'm gay know.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage.

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.

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.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Courage is what preserves our liberty safety life and our homes and parents our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

If we are to survive we must have ideas vision and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Determination energy and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

Courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior.

Courage and willingness to just go for it whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.