"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die." - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace." - Amelia Earhart, Courage

"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage." - JEAN ANOUILH, Becket

"The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;
But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,
And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from."
- JOANNA BAILLIE, Basil

"Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live." - THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici

"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage." - CONFUCIUS, Analects

"None but the brave deserves the fair." - JOHN DRYDEN, Alexander's Feast

"By 'guts' I mean 'grace under pressure'." - ERNEST HEMINGWAY, quoted in New Yorker

"Perfect courage is todo without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the world." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

"Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed." - MARGARET MITCHELL, Gone with the Wind

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - ANAAUIS NIN, diary entry (The Diary of Anaauis Nin)

"Courage mounteth with occasion." - SHAKESPEARE, King John

"But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail."
- SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth

"Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand." - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, The Great North Road

"Fortune favors the brave." - TERENCE, Phormio

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." - MARK TWAIN, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualitites, because ... it is the quality that guarantees all others." - Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot." - Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Roosevelt, Theodore