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