The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.