Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, “Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
I believe that courage is the sum of strength and wisdom. You take away wisdom from the equation - courage may turn to rage.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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 knowing what not to fear.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Look at hopelessness in the face and say: "We are simply not meant to be together." Hold courage's hand and walk away.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare
Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.
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.
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.