Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. - George Smith Patton

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. - David Ben-Gurion

Courage is knowing what not to fear. - Plato

Optimism is the foundation of courage. - Nicholas Murray Butler

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. - Diane de Poitiers

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. - Coventry Patmore

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. - John Wayne

Necessity does the work of courage. - Nicholas Murray Butler

Inside courage laughs fear. - Jareb Teague