Many people have died for what they believe… the real courage is living and suffering for what you believe. – Christopher Paolini
I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. – Linda Ellerbee
There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. – Louis D. Brandeis
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” – Alexander Hamilton
Courage is grace under pressure. – Ernest Hemingway
Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate. – Linda R. Dominguez
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. – Henry H. Tweedy
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. – E. E. Cummings
The first of all qualities of a general is courage. – David McCullough
Courage is nothing less than the power To overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, While continuing to affirm inwardly That life with all its sorrows is good; That everything is meaningful even if in a sense Beyond our understanding; And there is always tomorrow. – Dorothy Thompson
Success is that old ABC — ability, breaks, and courage. – Charles Luckman
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets. – George S. Patton
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. – Alfred North Whitehead
Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. – Terri Guillemets
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
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. – Michel de Montaigne
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. – Aristotle
One man with courage makes a majority. – Andrew Jackson
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. -C.S. Lewis
Fear and courage are brothers.
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. – Thomas Fuller
Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one. – Lauren Raffo
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. – Cicero
Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid. – Franklin P. Jones
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. – Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. – Mark Twain
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. – Mignon McLaughlin
It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as a lamb. – Roman Proverb
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. – Mark Twain
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow. – Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. – John F. Kennedy
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon
It requires more courage to suffer than to die. – Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury. – Muriel Strode
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. – Epicurus
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. – Aristotle
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. – Baltasar Gracian
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. – Miguel de Cervantes
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. – Thomas Szasz
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. – Helen Keller
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. – R. G. Ingersoll
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. – Dale Carnegie
Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin
One man with courage makes a majority. – Andrew Jackson
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
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. – Alfred North Whitehead
