To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. – Janeane Garofalo
Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. – Emile Hirsch
When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using. – Kirstie Alley
The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something. – Carson Daly
Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results. – Kenneth L. Pike
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. – Geraldine Brooks
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage. – Geraldine Brooks
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult. – Julia Cameron
You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go. – Kenny Loggins
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. – Joseph Pulitzer
It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean. – Ray Comfort
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. – Robert Dale Owen
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained. – Major Taylor
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity. – Richard L. Evans
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places – uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me – I find fault. – Branch Rickey
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation. – Alan Autry
Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no. – Jose Carreras
Part of courage is simple consistency. – Peggy Noonan
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. – Stokely Carmichael
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. – Sinclair Lewis