1. The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. -Paul Tillich.
2. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. --Clare Booth Luce.
3. Courage is fear that has said its prayers. --Dorothy Bernard.
4. Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -Eddie Rickenbacker.
5. A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. -Jean Paul Richter.
6. Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. -John Quincy Adams.
7. The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. -Corra Harris.
8. Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. -Thomas Fuller.
9. Fortune favors the brave. –Virgil.
10. Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. -Charles Caleb Colton.
11. Courage is rarely reckless or foolish . . . courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced. -Margaret Truman.
12. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. -Abraham Lincoln.
13. It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
-Erma Bombeck.
14. Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment. -Napoleon Bonaparte.
15. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. -Albert Einstein.
16. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.
17. Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. -Amelia Earhart.
18. Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
-David Ben-Gurion.
19. We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it. -Barry Lopez.
20. He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. -Miguel De Cervantes.
21. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Joseph Chamberlain.
22. One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.
-Don Quixote.
23. Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
-Victor Hugo.
24. It takes courage to push things forward. -Mo Mowlam.
25. Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway. -Mignon McLaughlin.
26. Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind. It takes more courage to take a blow than give one. It takes more courage to try and talk things through than to start a war. -Mahatma Gandhi.
27. Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. -W Clement Stone.
28. 'Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?' -Marie Antoinette.
29. The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does. - Charles Bukowski
30. The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. - Mignon McLaughlin.