Courage

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin,
but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”  
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones;
and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
God is awake.” 
– Victor Hugo

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
– Honoré de Balzac

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
– Mark Twain

“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going.
What you need is to recognize the possibilities and
challenges offered by the present moment, and to
embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”  
– Thomas Merton

“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’
‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage,
you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it.”
– William Danforth

“Courage is not having the strength to go on;
it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
– Vincent van Gogh

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always
difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the
same courage that a soldier needs.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson