Definition-Courage: The quality of being able to control one's fear and so to face danger, pain or trouble willingly and bravely.

January 6

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill

January 7

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the decision that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon

January 8

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ~Mary Anne Radmacher

January 9

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain

January 12

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather

January 13

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

January 14

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. ~Aesop

January 15

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

January 16

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr.

January 20

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give – Eleanor Roosevelt

January 21

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

January 22

Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb

January 26

People cannot discover new oceans unless they have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Anonymous

January 27

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ~John F. Kennedy

January 28

Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. ~Irisa Hail

January 29

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~Raymond Lindquist

January 30

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ~Mark Rutherford

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ~Alfred North Whitehead

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. ~Edward Weeks

A man of courage never wants weapons. ~Author Unknown

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. ~Henry S. Haskins

There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. ~John Wainwright

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. ~Charles Kennedy

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. ~John F. Kennedy

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~George Smith Patton

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ~David Ben-Gurion

Courage is knowing what not to fear. ~Plato

Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. ~Diane de Poitiers

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. ~Coventry Patmore

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. ~Horace Smith

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~Douglas Malloch

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. ~Albert Camus

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. ~Joseph Epstein

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Underneath courage shouts fear but of a hoarse voice. ~Irisa Hail

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ~Arthur Koestler

Courage is a kind of salvation. ~Plato

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. ~Carl Sandburg

Our thought cures courage. ~Jareb Teague

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ~Jean Paul Richter

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ~Robert Cody