Quotes on personal courage

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.” – Mark Twain -

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.” -Louisa May Alcott - 

“Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.”  -Scott Turow-