“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”

“Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.”

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”

“True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.”

“In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.”

“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.”

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

“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”

“Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.”

“A man of courage is also full of faith.”

“True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins; and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the forces of mechanism.”

“The best measure of courage is the fear that is overcome.”

“Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!”

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.”

“Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.”

“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”

“Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.”

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”

“The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.”

“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one’s self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it ought to be obeyed.”

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

“Courage is acting in spite of fear.”

“The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.”

“One man with courage makes a majority.”

“The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.”

“A hero is someone we can admire without apology.”

“If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.”

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

“The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!”

“Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, or the lawyer who didn't take the drug money, or the daughter who held her tongue again and again. All this anonymous heroism.”

“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”

“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”

“No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause.”

“It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.”

“I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to incur it.”

“To be courageous means to be afraid but to go a little step forward anyway.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.”

“Tisn’t life that matters! It’s the courage you bring to it.”