.:: Courage ::.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.  

~Ambrose Redmoon

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.  

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.  

~Winston Churchill

Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. 

 ~Mary Anne Radmacher

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

  ~Mark Twain

People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.  

~Mignon McLaughlin

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. 

 ~Dan Rather

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.  There can be no courage unless you're scared.

~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  ~C.S. Lewis

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.  

~John F. Kennedy

One man with courage makes a majority. 

 ~Andrew Jackson

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.  

~Raymond Lindquist

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. 

 ~Michel de Montaigne

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.  

~Alfred North Whitehead