Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.      —General Omar Bradley

“Come to the edge,” He said. They said, “We are afraid.” “Come to the edge,” He said. They came. He pushed them...and they flew.

—Guillaume Apollinaire

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.    —Ruth Gordon

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.       —Winston Churchill

If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive.

—Bahagavad Gita

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

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

—e.e. cummings

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

—Anais Nin

One man with courage is a majority.                 —Thomas Jefferson

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.      —Clementine Paddleford

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

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

—Ambrose Redmoon