Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

 —Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

—Seneca

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

 —Erica Jong

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

—Helen Keller

One man with courage is a majority.

 —Thomas Jefferson

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

 —Martin Luther King, Jr

You can’t be brave if you’ve had only wonderful things happen to you.

 —Mary Tyler Moore

It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars.

 —Garrison Keillor

 

Live to the point of tears.                                       —Albert Camus

 

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

 —Thomas Fuller

 

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

 —Mignon McLaughlin

 

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

 —Winston Churchill

 

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

 —Mark Rutherford

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

 —C.S. Lewis

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

 —G.K. Chesterton