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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
“True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid…”
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Context: There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.
“Optimism is true moral courage.”
Quoted in South with Shackleton (1949) by L. D. A. Hussey; also in The National Geographic Magazine (1998), Vol. 194, p. 90 https://books.google.com/books?id=RflKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Optimism+is+true+moral+courage%22&dq=%22Optimism+is+true+moral+courage%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uPISVYCTK8_loAT_kYDIBw&ved=0CNABEOgBMCA
1920s, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization (1923)
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book I: The Book of Three (1964), Chapter 19
“The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.”
Attributed
"Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned", in Esquire.com (26 December 2012) http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a17607/ronda-rousey-mma-quotes-0113/
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 271
“True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.”
Source: Black Blood
“True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.”
As quoted in General H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. Interview with the American Academy of Achievement Source: [General H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. Interview, www.achievement.org, "Academy of Achievement", https://achievement.org/achiever/general-h-norman-schwarzkopf/#interview] As quoted in Pocket Patriot : Quotes from American Heroes (2005) by Kelly Nickell, p. 53
