Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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

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

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The read more

Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle--the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to
the tempest's shock.
[It., Sta read more

Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to
the tempest's shock.
[It., Sta come torre ferme, che non crolla
Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.]

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.