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• Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo
  
  
• Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. ~Samuel Johnson
  
  
• Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. ~Horace Smith
  
  

• Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~Douglas Malloch
  
  

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

• 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
  
  

• A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ~Jean Paul Richter
  
  
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. ~Mark Twain
  
  

• Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. From now on you’ll be traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be. The key is to allow yourself to make the journey. ~From The Princess Diaries