Courage is ... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Courage is the right disposition toward fear.
Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.
Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.
There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Spiritual cowardice is not only weakness but wickedness.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is, perhaps, cowardice.
Men perish by the sword, cowards by disease.
Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendered.
If you knew how cowardly your enemy is, you would slap him.
