The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
~ Joanna Baillie

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
~ John Quincy Adams

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.
~ Joseph Addison

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
~ Freda Adler

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.
~ Akhenaton

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
~ Vittorio Alfieri

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
~ James Allen

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
~ Barbara De Angelis

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
~ Jean Anouilh

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
~ Jean Anouilh

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right wayà that is not easy.
~ Aristotle

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
~ Aristotle

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
~ Aristotle

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
~ St. Augustine

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
~ Bruce Barton

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.
~ D.A. Battista

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
~ Sir Cecil Beaton

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
~ David Ben-Gurion

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
~ Georges Bernanos

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Dorothy Bernard