Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, “Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.
It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Look at hopelessness in the face and say: "We are simply not meant to be together." Hold courage's hand and walk away.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
Fear cuts deeper than swords.