Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~ John Wayne

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~ George Smith Patton

Courage is knowing what not to fear. ~ Plato

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. ~ Joseph Epstein

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

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~ Samuel Johnson

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ~ Winston Churchill

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

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ~ Robert Cody

One man with courage makes a majority. ~ Andrew Jackson

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~ Mark Twain

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. ~ Aesop

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

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