The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard Shaw

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
Lewis Mumford

A man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. Truman

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale

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

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
Margaret Mitchell

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Virginia Woolf

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
Benito Mussolini

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
William Butler Yeats

Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
Thomas Kempis