The cold hard fact of courage is that it has to spring from within. Because it's opposite, fear, lives inside of us as well...fear really is alive, even when it's just sitting there, free from its influence. Still we are aware how dangerous it is. How debilitating it is, how crippling and how it stops us some times.

Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Without fear there cannot be courage.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

"So never lose sight for a moment of the maxim so often repeated in one context or another in these letters: that fear is at the root of every possibility of trouble, and that "Fear is Failure, and the forerunner of failure; for in the heart of a coward virtue abideth not.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. I felt fear more times than I can remember, but I hid it behind a mask of boldness. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear

The true meaning of courage is to be afraid — and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, take the leap anyway.

The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

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