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ON COURAGE -- All from http://www.quotationspage.com/

1/ Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in Reader's Digest, 1979

2/ I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), as a small child

3/ Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973)

4/ It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee (1926 - ), To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

5/ Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848

6/ Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne (1907 - 1979)

7/ It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

8/ Fortune favors the brave.
Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid