I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

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.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

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

“Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination … and a little dough.”

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination ... and a little dough.

“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.” 

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

"Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust God, and do"

“True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.” 

“True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.” 

“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.” 

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” 

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” 

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