Most folks want to believe in Armstrong in the credibility of his courage in the veracity of his inspiration in the purity of his Tour de France titles. Most want to believe but does everyone dare? We've been suckers for hearts-and-flowers icons before.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

See in everyone the Lord Himself moving in that form. Do not talk evil of others, see only good in them. Welcome every chance to help others to console others and to encourage others along the spiritual path.

Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.

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.

And I love that even in the toughest moments when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom and courage and grace.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Original Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you Joseph Campbell

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline, simulated fear postulates courage, simulated weakness postulates strength.

Flatter me and I may not believe you. Criticize me and I may not like you. Ignore me and I may not forgive you. Encourage me and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

I've been through it all baby, I'm mother courage.

Without courage wisdom bears no fruit.

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

I have always been one to encourage perseverance.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God listening to Him being attentive to Him requires a lot of courage and know-how.

So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

It Takes Courage To Do What You Want

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals good bad and otherwise.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Clime of the unforgotten brave! Whose land from plain to mountain-cave, Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave!

Success is never final failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Edison failed 10 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues for upon it all others depend.

God rewards according to the manner in which He is conceived or approached He grants you consolation and courage Once you have cleansed yourself by tears.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

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

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less and because numbness encourages laziness you do fewer things good or bad and the world's probably a better place for it.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue, courage is only the second virtue.

Real nobility is based on scorn courage and profound indifference.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people to discourage them from ambitious attempts and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love, and in that heart courage to make love known?

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism more humanness more compassion more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

The courage to face the trials and to bring... possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience that is the hero's deed. We have only to follow the heros path and where we had thought to find abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves... Where we had thought to travel outward we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we will be with all the world.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

As he was valiant I honour him. But as he was ambitious I slew him.

Permanence perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s discouragement s and impossibilities: It is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

If you lift the hand to serve to help to console to encourage another man you are lifting it for God because in every man is God.

From caring comes courage.

In South Africa we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world who through the use of non-violent means such as boycotts and divestment encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

When we all walked in you could feel their spirits being uplifted like they felt very encouraged and happy that we were there. It was just real cool to see that. To be able to go back (to New Orleans) play a game there and be able to uplift them again that's special.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged not coerced to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving for the sake of peace.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Great tragedy has come to us and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive create or produce but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves their perceptions and emotions and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Leaders come in many forms with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence some in judgment some in courage.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

God give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Excellence encourages one about life generally, it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand the spines of others are often stiffened.

Women encourage men to be childish then scold them.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts and to stand by their convictions even to the very death.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly but will not have the courage to say or even to think that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Because of a great love one is courageous.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil which I have forsaken in my great discouragement and I will go on with my drawing.

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

One man with courage is a majority.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

You will never do anything worthwhile in this world without courage

Remember always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Generosity pleasing address courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired but are inbred qualities.

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings sadness and drama. With just this one agreement you can completely transform your life.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

The strangest most generous and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts, the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

The more wit the less courage.

Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us all that gives value to life, we owe to it pity we owe to it courage we owe to it all the virtues.

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam my three daughters here Nicole Jamie LeeAnn my mom who's right here too.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage, since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars conquer the deserts eradicate disease tap the ocean depths and encourage the arts and commerce.

Original Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you Joseph Campbell

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

The spirited horse which will try to win the race of its own accord will run even faster if encouraged.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Correction does much but encouragement does more.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

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

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes and say 'O God forgive me ' or 'Help me.'

One man with courage makes a majority.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

This soul or life within us by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

There is something more - the spirit or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy and identity.

Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

You have no reason to feel proud when you are able to help another for your skill or wealth or strength or courage or official position that gave you the chance to serve was the gift of God whether you recognize it or not. You are only offering this God's gift to another God's gift namely the poor the illiterate the weak the diseased the grieving the broken-hearted who seek your help.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame they kill, or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

I with a deeper instinct choose a man who compels my strength who makes enormous demands on me who does not doubt my courage or my toughness who does not believe me naive or innocent who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded, and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius mental vigor and courage which it contained.

Above all we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

There is in true beauty as in courage something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

All you need is the plan the road map and the courage to press on to your destination.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

If I had permitted my failures or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Nay number itself in armies importeth not much where the people is of weak courage, for as Virgil saith "It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind spare to us our friends soften to us our enemies.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can encourages it.

You know there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

Those men who are happy in this world who are generous towards their relatives kind to strangers indifferent to the wicked loving to the good shrewd in their dealings with the base frank with the learned courageous with enemies humble with elders and stern with the wife.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise I say ignore the bastard.

We gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage, which in the past has been brought to public life, is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

He possessed beauty without vanity strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices

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.