Alma the Elder, The Book of Mormon

As with Moroni, two individuals had the name "Alma", a male name in the Book of Mormon society. These two were father and son, with both making significant contributions to the teachings in the Book of Mormon.
The son's life record is more complete than the father's, but it is the father that illustrates a principle worth remembering: courage involves acting in a way which puts you or something you hold dear in jeopardy.
We don't know how, but Alma (referred to as "the elder" by Latter Day Saints to avoid confusion) works his way into the company of a rather corrupt group of men. These were the priests of  King Noah, the ruler of a Nephite splinter group about 150 years before the birth of Christ. Noah has been mentioned in this space before. He was evidently a corrupt ruler, much more concerned with his own good life than that of the people he ruled.
Into this scene comes a prophet named Abinadi, whose assignment is to call Noah and his people to repentance - something they are not prepared for, nor inclined to do. Abinadi is arrested on trumped up charges, and is brought before the King. Ordered to speak in his own defense, Abinadi does so, recounting for his audience some of the most memorable moments of Israelite history, and urging them to change their ways and earn the right to be preserved as their ancestors had been.
This message is rejected almost completely. The exception is Alma, who sees the entire scene unfold, then witnesses Abinadi's martyrdom, burned at the stake with the words of his message still on his lips. This horrific scene apparently made little impression on those who saw it, but Alma was impressed enough to go off on his own and spend some time recording Abinadi's message.
Then comes the part regarding the quality of courage. Alma began to secretly convene groups of people to repeat Abinadi's message. The group must have been tiny at first, but then others began to attend. Being found out would surely have proved fatal for this small group of believers. They had no plan of escape. In fact, none of the Nephites in the group, believers or not, were really free. Alma had to know that there was great danger in assembling, but he did it anyway, and began to baptize members of the group. They, of course, were equally at risk, forming a kind of internal refugee group with little to look forward to until the end of mortality.
This story, in fact, has a happy ending, with the group escaping to rejoin the main body of Nephites they had left behind two generations before. But that doesn't change the fact that these were courageous people, willing and ready to risk everything in order to gain salvation.