Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.--Gertrude Stein

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.--Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook)

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.--Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.--David Ben-Gurion

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.--Billy Graham

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.--Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values.--Rollo May (The Courage to Create)

Courage is not simply another virtue, it is the true form each and every virtue takes when put into practice.--Michael Rawls (from Friday's Inspiration: The Foundation of Integrity - 6/1/2001)

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

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

Courage is reclaiming your life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength, another talent...It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive, special...--Catherine Britton

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

Courage is the atom of change.--Bettina R. Flores

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.--Aristotle

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.--Clare Boothe Luce (in Reader's Digest, 1979)

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.--Maya Angelou

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.--Raymond Lindquist

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.--George Washington

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."-—C. S. Lewis

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.--Samuel Butler

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.--John Evelyn

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.--Woodrow Wilson

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.--C. S. Lewis

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.--Barbara Tuchman

Friendships multiply joys and divide grief.--Thomas Fuller

Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine.--Gehles