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

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 

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.--John Bradshaw 

"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 

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where won man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.--Clarence Darrow 

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.--Jerry Gillies 

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

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.--Sandra Day O'Conner