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"Most people don't know how brave they really are. In fact, many potential heroes, both men and women, live out their lives in self-doubt. If they only knew they had these deep resources, it would help give them the self-reliance to meet most problems, even a big crisis."
-- U.S. Army General R.E. Chambers (Former chief of the Psychiatry and Neurology Division)

"Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval. Courage becomes a living and an attractive virtue when it is regarded not only as a willingness to die manfully, but also as a determination to live decently. A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well."
-- Thomas S. Monson, "The Call for Courage"

"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway." --John Wayne

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
-- Dorothy Bernard

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

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear."
-- Mark Twain

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."
--Winston Churchill

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace."
--Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) US aviator

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
-- Anais Nin (1903-1977, Writer and Diarist)

"A man with outward courage dares to die. A man with inward courage dares to live."
--Lao-Tzu

"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."
-- Maya Angelou

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
-- Vincent Van Gogh

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."
-- Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC)

"I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load.
I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock-strewn road.
Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone,
and transform every stumbling block into a stepping-stone."

-- Gale Brook Burket

"No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's
storm-troubled sphere:
I see the Heaven's
glories shine,
and faith shines equal,
arming me from fear."

-- Emily Bronte

"Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts."
-- George F. Tiltonood

"Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest."
-- Holy Bible, Joshua 1:9

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
-- John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"
-- Anonymous