Fear cuts deeper than swords.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
Look at hopelessness in the face and say: "We are simply not meant to be together." Hold courage's hand and walk away.
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
I believe that courage is the sum of strength and wisdom. You take away wisdom from the equation - courage may turn to rage.
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.
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.