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 

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear;
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.--Amelia Earhart 

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.--Ruth Gordon 

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.--Winston Churchill 

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. People do what they must--in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures--and that is the basis of all human morality.--John F. Kennedy 

Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.--Joan L. Curcio 

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes) 

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.--Neal A. Maxwell 

Do the thing you fear, then the death of fear is certain.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes) 

Do what you fear and fear disappears.--David Joseph Schwartz 

Don't forget to pack your courage for your journey to greatness.--Dave Weinbaum 

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.--Robert F. Kennedy 

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.--Erica Jong 

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.--Gerald Jampolsky