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.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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.
Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Look at hopelessness in the face and say: "We are simply not meant to be together." Hold courage's hand and walk away.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
I believe that courage is the sum of strength and wisdom. You take away wisdom from the equation - courage may turn to rage.
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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.
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.
Fear cuts deeper than swords.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.