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 just fear plus prayers plus understanding.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

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

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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

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

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

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 like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

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

Courage is always rewarded.

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

Courage is found in unlikely places.

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

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

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 makes victory possible.

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

Courage is grace under pressure.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

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

Courage is the birthplace of confidence.

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

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

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Courage is action, not talk.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

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

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

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

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

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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

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

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

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

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

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

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

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.