Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
— C. S. Lewis
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.
— Mark Twain
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
— Euripides
To bear other people’s afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
— Benjamin Franklin
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
— Dolores Ibarruri
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
— Marvin Kitman
Courage is grace under pressure.
— Ernest Hemingway
If God wanted us to be brave, why did he give us legs?
— Marvin Kitman
Have the courage to act instead of react.
— Earlene Larson Jenks
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
— Marshal Ferdinand Foch
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead.
— William Shakespeare
Fear always springs from ignorance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
— Joseph Conrad
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
— Jonathon Swift
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
— Thomas Fuller
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.
— Ronald Reagan
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
— Ruth Gordon
It is a brave act of valor to condemn death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
— Thomas Browne
No one can prove his courage when he has never been in danger.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
But screw your courage to the sticking place, and you’ll not fail.
— William Shakespeare
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight--it is the size of the fight in the dog.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
— Ethel Watts Mumford
...what cannot be cured must be endured.
— Ignatius Sancho
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
— David Lloyd George
I have not yet begun to fight. (Sometimes quoted as “I have just begun to fight.”)
— Captain John Paul Jones, aboard the Bonhomme Richard, when asked whether he was prepared to surrender to the British, September 13, 1779
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you...you’ll be a Man, my son!
— Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
— Jean Kerr
The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
— Elmer Davis
If blood be shed, let it be our blood. Cultivate the quiet courage of dying without killing. For man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
— Mohandas K. Gandhi
“Sayings”
It does not take a very brave dog to bark at the bones of a lion.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.
If a thing is worth having, it’s worth fighting for.
Stand up and fight.
Stand up and be counted.
No guts, no glory.
“Jokes”
The Texan was trying to impress on the New Englander the valor of the heroes of the
“I suppose you’ve never heard of Paul Revere?” countered the New Englander.
“Sounds familiar,” said the Texan. “Isn’t he the guy who ran for help?”
The new employee had been with the firm for only a few months when she went in to ask for a raise.
“So soon!” The boss was taken aback. “Certainly not. In this company you have to work yourself up.”
“I have!” she insisted. “Look at me -- I’m trembling all over.”
