We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.