Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. – Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch)
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
Courage is a love affair with the unknown. – Osho
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. – Mark Twain
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. – Marvin Kitman
Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. – Sultana Zoraya
If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs? – Marvin Kitman
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one. – Lauren Raffo
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. – Ernest Hemingway, Men at War, 1942
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. – Thomas Fuller
Fear and courage are brothers. – Terri Guillemets
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. – C.S. Lewis
One man with courage makes a majority. – Andrew Jackson
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. – Mark Rutherford
Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. – Kurt Goldstein
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. – Edward Weeks
