It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another

Courage is the fire that burns in the cold,dark room of fear and doubt that we live in

Who can be patient in extremes

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared

One with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the person ready to die

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that can be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other