His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.
I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
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.
The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.
The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman - who is only a mere superhero.
If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.
On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
Courage only counts when you can count.
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.
