 | "Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace."
- Amelia Earhart
, Courage, 1927. |
| "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
- Anais Nin
, The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944. |
| "Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
- Cicero
. |
| "Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."
- Clare Booth Luce
, in Reader's Digest, 1979. |
| "The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly."
- Corra Harris
. |
| "I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave."
- E. M. Forster
, as a small child. |
| "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
- Eddie Rickenbacker
. |
| "A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger."
- Euripides
, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.. |
| "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
- Harold Wilson
. |
| "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."
- Harper Lee
, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960. |