It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
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 knowing what not to fear.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Courage is found in unlikely places.
Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.
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.
Courage, dear heart.
Courage is grace under pressure.