„To abandon your duty is not courageous. Below the courageous, there is nothing. Those are the previous Hokage's words.“

„Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.“

—  Anthony Trollope English novelist (1815-1882) 1815 - 1882

The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=BKwxAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Those+who+have+courage+to+love+should+have+courage+to+suffer%22&pg=PA77#v=onepage

„God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.“

—  George Sand, La Petite Fadette

Source: La Petite Fadette

„The story of their gallantry came to epitomize a spirit of courage, duty and self-sacrifice.“

—  Steve Turner British writer 1949

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 13

„Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.“

—  Thornton Wilder, livre The Eighth Day

The Eighth Day (1967)

„Courage is the ability to ignore your options.“

—  Tom Heehler American author

The Well-Spoken Thesaurus (2011)

„Screw your courage to the sticking-place“

—  William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

„The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.“

—  Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961

„Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more an nothing less.“

—  Robin S. Sharma Canadian self help writer 1965

Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny

„Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.“

—  Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014

„Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity.“

—  Antonin Scalia former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1936 - 2016

Address to the Knights of Columbus Council 969 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana https://web.archive.org/web/20050903023753/http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=article&DocID=2291 (January 2005).
2000s

„Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.“

—  Virgil, Énéide

Original: (la) Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Line 641

„Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.“

—  Helen Fisher Canadian anthropologist 1947

Source: Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love

„(…) I live on courage. Courage is my essence, which is love of life. I am free of memories and anticipations, unconcerned with what I am and what I am not. (…) I have the courage to be as nothing and to see the world as it is: nothing. It sounds simply, just try it!“

—  Nisargadatta Maharaj Indian guru 1897 - 1981

Courage
Source: "I am That." P.105.

„I believe Love is the most courageous act of which a human being is capable. The word courage even stems from the root word “heart” (coeur). Scientifically speaking, it is quantifiable only by recognition of its quality.“

—  Vanna Bonta Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014) 1958 - 2014

Space: What love's got to do with it - The Space Review (2004)

„For courage, for power, for skill, for fighting will, there is nothing on record that holds a candle to Fitz.“

—  Bob Fitzsimmons British boxer 1863 - 1917

Edgar Lee Masters historian and writer, Book of Boxing page 233.

„The courage of New England was the "courage of conscience."“

—  Rufus Choate American politician 1799 - 1859

It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
Address at Ipswich Centennial (1834).

„Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered.
“Courage, Ta­tiana.“

—  Paullina Simons, livre The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

„For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.“

—  Khaled Hosseini, livre And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

„And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect, nothing is, and no one is — and that’s OK.“

—  Katie Couric American journalist 1957

Graduation speech at Williams College, 2007 http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0029-couric.htm