What is courage?" I ask. "Bearing witness. That is a form…

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

— Delmore Schwartz

Happiness is a form of courage.

— Holbrook Jackson

We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do…

— Leymah Gbowee

Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage…

— Kenneth Branagh

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

— Sinclair Lewis

I think laughter may be a form of courage.

— Linda Ellerbee

The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must not simply…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the…

— Anonymous

Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is…

— Ellen Willis

We know what boredom is: it is a dull Impatience or a fierce velleity, A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude, To make or…

— Richard Wilbur

“There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably…

— Kevin Hearne

“The discipline of witness takes seriously the biblical mandate of bearing witness to Jesus by building nonmanipulative relationships with eternity in view.”

— Kenneth D. Boa

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people…

— Jodi Picoult

Let me close by bearing witness (and my nine decades on this earth fully qualify me to say this) that the older I get,…

— L. Tom Perry

Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.

— Brent Stirton