Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Courage is the birthplace of confidence.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

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

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Courage is action, not talk.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

From caring comes courage.

Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Bravery is the engine of change.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

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

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.