“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
“Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.”
“Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.”
“The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.”
“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?”
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
“To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.”
“It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.”
“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
“The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.”
“Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.”
“No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.”
“He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.”
“I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.”
“Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.”
“Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.”
“A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.”
“The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.”
“For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.”
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.”
“It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.”
“We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.”
“All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.”
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”
“I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.”
“Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.”
“The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.”