Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.