Courage is being scared to ...

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
 John Wayne

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man, but soon or late the one who wins is the one who thinks he can!”
 Walter D. Wintle

Quotes from the same author

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.
 John Wayne
I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.
 John Wayne
I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that . . . but not as far down as R and X. I think any man who makes an X-rated picture ought to be made to take his own daughter to see it.
 John Wayne
Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
 John Wayne
My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in.
 John Wayne