Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Courage is not the absence of fear...
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
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