Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. - Arthur Koestler

Courage is a kind of salvation. - Plato

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. - Carl Sandburg

Our thought cures courage. - Jareb Teague

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. - H.G. Bohn

You can't test courage cautiously. - Anne Dillard

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. - Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935