I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

One man with courage is a majority.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression – thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Our nation must come together to unite.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Fortune befriends the bold.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.