Courage is found in unlikely places

Courage allows the successful woman to fail- and learn powerful lessons- from the failure- so that in the end, she didn't fail at all

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

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

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

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live