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| 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 not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than 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 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 is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~ Mark Twain |
| 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 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, |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, |
| Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ~ Thomas Fuller |
| Fear and courage are brothers. ~ Proverb |
| Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~ C.S. Lewis |
| 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 |
| 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 is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. ~ Terri Guillemets |
| True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ~ Alfred North Whitehead |