We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
William Hazlitt

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
Virgil

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
Bryant H. McGill

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
Doug Coupland

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
Katherine Anne Porter

Every man of courage is a man of his word.
Pierre Corneille

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
Andrew Johnson

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
Kong Fu Zi

And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.
Rick Perry

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
Rick Perry

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Noel Coward

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.
Dick Cheney

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
Catherine Deneuve

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Courage follows action.
Mack R. Douglas

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North Whitehead

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Dean Koontz

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Edward Gibbon

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks

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.
Robert Green Ingersoll