Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
La Rochefoucauld
Don't be afraid to see what you see.
Ronald Reagan
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Joseph Addison
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Jean Paul Richter
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham
Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
Leonardo da Vinci
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. Patton
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Boldness be my friend.
William Shakespeare
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
G.K. Chesterton
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
Christopher Columbus
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S Lewis
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Miguel de Cervantes
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
Martin Luther
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Aristotle
