Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
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Courage consists not only in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.
It is dangerous to abandon oneself to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish of recovery.
The brave man is not he who feels no fear, for that were stupid and irrational; but he whose noble soul subdues its fear, and bravely dares the danger natures shrinks from.
Where in the heart there is combined love and courage, even the weak become mighty.
The difference between talents and character is adroitness to keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road to new and better goals.
Courage is the scorner of things which inspire fear.
True courage is to do without witnesses everything that one is capable of doing before all the world.
Who, then, is the invincible man? He whom nothing outside the sphere of his moral purpose can dismay.
The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.