Courage

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.  ~ John Wayne
 

Necessity does the work of courage.  ~ George Eliot
 

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.  ~ 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
 

 It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.  ~ Mark Twain
 

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.  ~ Anais Nin
 

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.  ~ D.H. Lawrence
 

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?  ~ Vincent van Gogh
 

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are. ~ Saint Augustine
 

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.  ~ Maya Angelou
 

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.  ~ Aristotle
 

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.  ~ Jonathan Swift
 

The greatest form of courage is to act as if our lives made a difference.  ~ William Sullivan
 

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.  ~ C.S. Lewis

The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.  ~ Cervantes
 

Courage, the footstool of Virtues, upon which they stand.  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
 

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.  ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
 

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.  ~ Robert F. Kennedy
 

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.  ~ Plautes
 

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.  ~ Georges Duhamel
 

Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.   ~ Preston Bradley
 

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.  ~ Pierre Corneille

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.  ~ Winston Churchill
 

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.  ~ Gail Sheehy
 

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but none for the concrete.  ~ Helen Keller
 

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.  ~ Horace
 

Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.  ~ Mary W. Stewart
 

Cowards die many times before their death; the valiant never taste of death but once.  ~ William Shakespeare
 

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
 

Fortune favors the brave.  ~ Terence
 

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.  ~ Coco Chanel
 

It is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.  ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.  ~ Cervantes
 

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.  ~ Mickey Mantle
 

Courage is knowing what not to fear.  ~ Plato
 

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.  ~ Aristotle
 

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.  ~ Thomas Fuller
 

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tommorrow."  ~ Mary Anne Radnacher
 

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.  ~ Jean Anouilh
 

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.  ~ George S. Patton
 

Courage is exhilarating.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
 

Courage - fear that has said its prayers.  ~ Dorothy Bernard
 

Catch courage.  ~ Carolyn Heilbrun
 

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.  ~ Winston Churchill
 

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absense of fear.  ~ Mark Twain
 

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.  ~ Lucille Ball
 

Courage is its own reward.  ~ Plautus
 

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.  ~ Thomas Jefferson