Courage is when you do what you have to do though people don't think you can. Courage is when you think you can't do something, but you do it. - Adam McCord

Courage is... when you stare your worst fear or toughest obstacle in the face and beat it. - Adam McCord

Courage is when you take on the impossible or fight an unwinnable fight. - Adam McCord

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things. - Amelia Earhart Putnam
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To Trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed. - Bernard Edmonds

Freedom is a system based on courage. - Charles Peguy

Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right. - Cicero

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our lives. - David Boorstin

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

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. - Mary Tyler Moore

Courage is grace under pressure. - Ernest Hemingway

The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on. - General George S. Patton

Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you see it through no matter what. - Harper Lee

True courage is like a kite; a big wind raises it higher. - J. Petit-Senn

Courage is capacity to confront what cannot be imagined. - Leo Rosten

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave. - Mark Twain

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected. - Samuel Johnson

Recall you courage, and lay aside sad fear. - Virgil

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney

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