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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
- Harold Wilson, (1916 - 1995)

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
- Clare Booth Luce, US diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician (1903 - 1987)

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (1850 - 1894)

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
- Cicero, Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin, US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 - 1977)

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart, US aviator (1897 - 1937)

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams, US diplomat & politician (1767 - 1848)

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, US novelist (1926 - )

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker, US WWI aviator & businessman (1890 - 1973)

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
- Menander, Greek comic dramatist (342 BC - 292 BC)

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne, US movie actor & director (1907 - 1979)

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
- Corra Harris

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
- Thomas Fuller, English clergyman & historian (1608 - 1661)

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
- Thomas Fuller, English clergyman & historian (1608 - 1661)

Fortune favors the brave.
- Virgil, Roman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC)

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
- Euripides, Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC)

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish dramatist & politician (1751 - 1816)

Fortune helps the brave.
- Terence, Roman comic dramatist (185 BC - 159 BC)

CP I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
- E. M. Forster, British novelist (1879 - 1970)

CP A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul Richter, German author (1763 - 1825)

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
- Lawana Blackwell