Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Courage is not the absence of fear...
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
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