What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

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.

Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.