Virgil

Fortune favors the brave.


René G. Torres

“He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.”


Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

“Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.”


William Shakespeare

“Discretion is the better part of valour.”


William Shakespeare

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”


Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.


Rodan of Alexandria

“Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.”


Herman Melville

‘I will have no man in my boat,’ said Starbuck, ‘who is not afraid of a whale.’ By this, he seemed to mean not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.


James A. LaFond-Lewis

“The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.”


Amelia Earhart

“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”


Pema Chödrön

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.


G. K. Chesterton

“Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.”


George Gordon Byron

“The French courage proceeds from vanity — the German from phlegm — the Turkish from fanaticism & opium — the Spanish from pride — the English from coolness — the Dutch from obstinacy — the Russian from insensibility — but the Italian from anger.”


from the movie “The Princess Diaries” (2001)

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.