It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
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.
True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
I believe that courage is the sum of strength and wisdom. You take away wisdom from the equation - courage may turn to rage.
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
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.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Fear cuts deeper than swords.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
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.