Courage Quotes
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 (Thanks, Frank Lynch)
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
~ Winston Churchill
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
~ Mark Twain
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.
~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius
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.
~ Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
~ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
