Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. - Samuel Johnson

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, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960