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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
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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