Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. – Horace Smith
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. – Douglas Malloch
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. – Albert Camus
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is a kind of salvation. – Plato
Underneath courage shouts fear but of a hoarse voice. – Terri Guillemets
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. – Carl Sandburg
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. – H.G. Bohn
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
I believe that courage is the sum of strength and wisdom. You take away wisdom from the equation – courage may turn to rage. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. – Jean Paul Richter
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. – Nelson Mandela
Courage is grace under pressure. – Ernest Hemingway
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. – Muhammad Ali
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. – Aristotle
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. – John F. Kennedy
One man with courage is a majority. – Thomas Jefferson
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. – W. Clement Stone
