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2. A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

3. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

4. A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

5. A man not perfect, but of heart So high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part Of earth's eternal heritage.

6. A man of courage is also full of faith.

7. A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

8. A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

9. All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

10. And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

11. As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not.

12. Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

13. Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

14. Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

15. Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

16. Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

17. Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

18. Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.

19. Courage in danger is half the battle.

20. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

21. Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

22. Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

23. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear,not absence of fear.

24. Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

25. Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess, of courage.

26. Even the sage considers it a difficult question...There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

27. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, and bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

28. Fortune and love favor the brave.

29. Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

30. Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

31. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

32. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet.

33. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

34. He who is brave in daring will be killed. He who is brave in not daring will live.

35. He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

36. Heroism - the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

37. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

38. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

39. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

40. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife.

41. It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

42. It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

43. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

44. Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

45. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

46. Never ask the gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

47. No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good Courage leads to heaven; fear, to death.

48. No man is a hero to his valet.

49. No man is a hero to his valet.

50. No one reaches a high position without daring.

51. Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

52. O friends, be men; so act that none may feel ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.

53. Of these two, one is advantageous and one is harmful.

54. One man with courage makes a majority.

55. One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

56. Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

57. Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue...in which we are surpassed by the lower animals.

58. Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die.

59. Say not that honour is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

60. Self-truth is the essence of heroism.

61. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

62. Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

63. Take away ambitions and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots? Valor hath its bounds, as well as other virtues, which once transgressed, the next step is into the territories of vice, so that, by having too large a proportion of this heroic virtue...may unawares run into temerity, obstinacy, and folly.

64. Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.

65. That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

66. The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

67. The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

68. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the mostserene and free.

69. The burden which is well borne becomes light.

70. The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

71. The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

72. The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

73. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide.

74. The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.

75. The more wit the less courage.

76. The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

77. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart.

78. The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

79. The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

80. There is always safety in valor.

81. There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

82. They flow from his own nature.

83. Think each one of his children and his wife, his home, his parents, living yet or dead.

84. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

85. To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.

86. True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

87. True courage is cool and calm.

88. Valor employed in an ill quarrel, turns to cowardice; and virtue then puts on foul vice's vizor.

89. Valor that parleys is near yielding.

90. Valour, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule - these constitute the duty of a soldier.

91. We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

92. Who combats bravely is not therefore brave: He dreads a deathbed like the meanest slave.

93. Who knows why Heaven dislikes what it dislikes?

94. Write on your doors the saying wise and old.

95. You will never do anything in this world without courage.