Courage Quote by Plutarch

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

— Duke of Wellington

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

— Horace Smith

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

— Jim Hightower

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

— Mark Twain

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

— Joseph Epstein

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

— Scott Turow

“Courage, however, may also be explained as a readiness to meet ills that threaten at the moment, in order to avoid greater ills that…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.

— Anonymous

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

— Rollo May

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

— Walter Inglis Anderson