I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
- Aristotle


No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
- Julius Caesar


To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
- Confucius


Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
- Confucius


Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing 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.
- Atticus Finch


How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
- Ben Franklin


A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mahatma Gandhi


I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
- Mahatma Gandhi


A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
- Thomas Jefferson


One man with courage is a majority.
- Thomas Jefferson


Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
- Ronald Reagan


He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates


Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain


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