Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
AristotleLife is mainly froth and bubble
Two things stand like stone -
Kindness in another's trouble.
Courage in your own.
Adam Lindsay GordonIt takes courage to push things forward.
Mo MowlamThere are high spots in all of our lives, and most of them come about through encouragement from someone else.
George AdamsThe coward and the courageous alike must die
LucanusFailure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of oneself.
Charlie ChaplinPart of courage is simple consistency.
Peggy NoonanShe displayed great courage and deep humanity both in her public life in politics and privately coping with her prolonged medical condition [Mo Mowlam]
Charles KennedyHave the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney SmithAttachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi's life. So, you might say that we are encouraged to love. [on loving Padme Amidala]
Anakin SkywalkerSuccess is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett MardenWhen women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
Benjamin SpockThe most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco ChanelThe amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart MillThe world has lost a religious leader who was revered across people of all faiths and none. He was an inspiration, a man of extraordinary faith, dignity and courage.
Throughout a hard and often difficult life, he stood for social justice and on the side of the oppressed, whether as a young man facing the Nazi occupation in Poland or later in challenging the Communist regime.
He never wavered, never flinched, in the struggle for what he thought was good and right.
[on Pope John Paul II]
Tony BlairCourage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Karl Von ClausewitzI have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.
George JoachimCourage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur KoestlerThe boats are streamlined, advertisement splattered, potential coffins, and are controlled on a knife-edge balance of courage and sense.
Simon BarnesWe must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell MaltzHave the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody
JuvenalCourage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
Marlene DietrichWar paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
Alexander BerkmanVirtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
NagarjunaI can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help.
Erika ChristensenFrom the true antagonist, illimitable courage is transmitted to you
Franz KafkaCourage is found in unlikely places.
J R R TolkienLife is to entered upon with courage.
TocquevilleI'm just so blessed to be able to do what I just love and have loved since I was a teenager, since I first found it, and to be encouraged by others for it
Angela BassettNothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Umberto EcoA team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Mickey MantleThe red badge of courage.
Stephan CraneThe world land speed record requires the minimum of skill, and the maximum of courage.
Tommy WisdomUntutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George PattonGive us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis StevensonIt takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out.
Judith RossnerTrue courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North WhiteheadHe who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel De CervantesTo live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri-Frederic AmielCourage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Joseph ChamberlainWhat is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree
Logan Pearsall SmithCourage 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 AngelouAll our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt DisneyHave the courage to live. Anyone can die. [Profound words, but easier said than done!]
Robert CodyPatience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Thomas HardyPugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form
Sinclair LewisSuccess is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston ChurchillHave courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor HugoLeaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
John GardnerI'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavour.
Ashleigh Banfield
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