Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.
Courage is the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
The best protection any woman can have ... is courage.
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
Freedom is not for the timid.
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.
Courage is always the surest wisdom.
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.
