Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. – Robert Cody
Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine. – Roy T. Bennett
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one’s fear. – Ambrose Redmoon
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is a love affair with the unknown. – Osho
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu
It is curious, curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. – Mark Twain
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill
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
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. – J.K. Rowling
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. – Mignon McLaughlin
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. – E.E. Cummings
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 he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. – 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
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. – Dan Rather
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. – Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. – Maya Angelou
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
Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid. – Franklin P. Jones
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. – William Faulkner
Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway. – Mignon McLaughlin
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
Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. – Erica Jong
Let courage break through the cracks in your fear. – Terri Guillemets
Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one. – Lauren Raffo
The opportunity to live my life was always present, but the courage was not. I bemoaned conditions, when I should have bemoaned merely the faint heart within me. – Muriel Strode
Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it. – C. JoyBell C.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. – Ernest Hemingway
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. – Thomas Fuller
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. – Maya Angelou
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
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. – Rumi
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. – John F. Kennedy
One man with courage makes a majority. – Andrew Jackson
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. – Michel de Montaigne
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin
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
A good part of courage is just being sick and tired. – Robert Brault
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. – John A. Shedd
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. – Alfred North Whitehead
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
A man of courage never wants weapons. – Unknown
Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.- Emma Donoghue
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer. – Morihei Ueshiba
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if you have to dig a little. – Tori Amos
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. – Aesop
A brave arm makes a short sword long enough. – French proverb
Courage is found in unlikely places. – J.R.R. Tolkien
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. – Henry S. Haskins
There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. – John Wainwright
I’m not funny. What I am is brave. – Lucille Ball
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. – Charles Kennedy
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. – John F. Kennedy
Courage is fear that has said its prayers. – Dorothy Bernard
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. – George Smith Patton
Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone. – Roy T. Bennett
Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. – Terri Guillemets
Courage is… the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. – David Ben-Gurion
Courage is knowing what not to fear. – Plato
Courage is grace under pressure. – Ernest Hemingway
Optimism is the foundation of courage. – Nicholas Murray Butler
To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity. – Bill Maher
Let your fear dance with courage and let courage lead. – Terri Guillemets
No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens. – Veronica Roth
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. – Diane de Poitiers
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. – Coventry Patmore
Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. – John Wayne
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness. – R.J. Palacio
Bravery is going on anyhow when you are so terrified your sphincters won’t hold and you can’t breathe and your heart threatens to stop. – Robert A. Heinlein
Necessity does the work of courage. – Nicholas Murray Butler
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live. – Lao Tzu
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. – Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 climbs atop fear and screams loud its mighty victory! – Terri Guillemets
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
Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it’s actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. – Christopher Paolini
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. – Albert Camus
Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. – Joseph Epstein
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
The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage. – Carrie Jones,
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. – Arthur Koestler
Taste just a sliver of courage and it’s hard to go back to fear. – Terri Guillemets
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit. – J.R.R. Tolkien
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
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. – H.G. Bohn
You can’t test courage cautiously. – Anne Dillard
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. – Mignon McLaughlin
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? – Vincent Van Gogh
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. – Harper Lee
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. – Jean Paul Richter
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