It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Creativity takes courage.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

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

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

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.