Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
—Dorothy Bernard
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
—Eddie Rickenbacker
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 of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change
—Ernest Hemingway
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
—Euripides
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.
—Harper Lee
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
—Jean Paul Richter
The stories of past courage can define that ingredient-they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
—John F. Kennedy
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
—John Quincy Adams
Courage is being scared to death—but saddling up anyway.
—John Wayne
The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
—Lawana Blackwell
If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
—Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
—Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
—Menander
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
—Mignon McLaughlin
The strongest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson