idioms about courage

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

~Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch) Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

~Ambrose Red moon Everyman has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

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

~Mark Twain People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius 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, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894 It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

~Dan Rather Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

~Marvin Kitman Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally.

~Sultana Zoraya Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ~Franklin P. Jones

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs?

~Marvin Kitman Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his leg.

~Ambrose Bierce Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.

~Lauren Raffo Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

~Ernest Hemingway, Men at War, 1942 Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

~Thomas Fuller Fear and courage are brothers.

~Proverb Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

~C.S. Lewis 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 One man with courage makes a majority.