Quotations on Courage
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
-Thomas Fuller
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-Robert Green Ingersoll
It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.
-Owen D. Young
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.
-Mark Twain
What counts is not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can't steal second base if you don't take your foot off first.
-Mike Todd
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
-Anonymous
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
-Amelia Earhart
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
I believe that courage is all too often seen as the absence of fear. If you descend by rope from a cliff and are not fearful to some degree, you are either crazy or unaware. Courage is seeing your fear, in a realistic perspective, defining it, considering alternatives and choosing to function in spite of the risks.
-Leonard Zunk

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