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It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.
I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.
When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.
The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly
The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.
Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger.
That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings.
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.
We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
I'm grateful to the LGBTQ community for giving me the courage to write music about who I am and not just about my sexual orientation.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
Real guts are nothing more than developing your inner voice to the point where it is louder and stronger than the voice of your fear.
[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.