Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Karle Wilson Baker

It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live.
~ Sir Thomas Browne, in Religio Medici, section xliv

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.
~ Ruth Gordon

Courage is grace under pressure.
~ Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.
~ Lauren Raffo

Courage is not limited to the battlefield. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like enduring pain when the room is empty or standing alone when you’re misunderstood.
~ Charles Swindoll

Fortes fortuna adiuvat. [Fortune favours the brave.]
~ Terence, in Phormio

Bravery never goes out of fashion.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray, in The Four Georges

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