Sentence examples for measure of courage from inspiring English sources

"From your loving me I've drawn a measure of courage that never would have come to me otherwise.

It takes no small measure of courage to make a nuisance of yourself for something you believe in.

It is to avoid hysteria, to show caution and a measure of courage, not Cameron's lapse into public fear.

Given discipline, patience — and a measure of courage — it may be the only means of reaching certain patients.

The political essence of "Carol" is that it shouldn't take any greater measure of courage or heroism for two women or two men to pursue their romance than it would take a heterosexual couple in similar circumstances.

She noted, however, Tania "gained some measure of courage herself" inspired by Akeelah.

With equal measures of courage and fear, Ms. Roberts, an anchor of the show and a breast cancer survivor, explained that the life-saving treatment she received five years ago was responsible for a new diagnosis, this time myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a rare blood and bone marrow disease once called preleukemia.

He who wills adventure will experience it – according to the measure of his courage.

It was a bold move that reflected a measure of political courage: Mr. Bush, not surprisingly, was promptly denounced for trying to raise new taxes.

But when the world needed a measure of the "courage, merits, intelligence and capacity of a people," he said, Cuba would set the example.

There must have been a hundred towns like it, set up in the heat of an old urgency that is all forgotten now, and their littleness and their shabbiness, which was the measure of the courage and passion that went into the making of them, now just look awkward and provincial and ridiculous, even to the people who have lived here long enough to know better.