His courage is a consequence of who he is.

A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.

Gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is.... True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care — with no one there to see or cheer.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

He remembered to the end of his life what he felt at that moment, while the bone of his lower jaw met the bones of his knuckles pressed so hard against them. He felt absolutely alone – alone in an emptiness that was different from empty space. He did not pity himself. He did not hate himself. He just endured himself and waited – waited till whatever it was that enclosed him made some sign.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

Courage isn’t charging into a machine gun nest. Courage is not caring what other people think.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.

The True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.

The courage that’s needed the most isn’t the kind that drives you to prevail over others, but the kind that allows you to be true to your truest self, no matter what other people want you to be.

It wasn’t really, he knew, about less fear. It was about more courage.

Real courage is being afraid but doing it anyway.

He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony.
Imagine a world without such souls.
Yes, it should have been harder to do.