Leadership Quotes, page 31

“For true courage will often require you to admit a mistake, hold your tongue, or wait to fight another day.”

“Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.”

“Courage is the mean between fear and confidence.”

“Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowheartedness.”

“Be steadfast as a tower that does not bend its summit to the tempest's shock.”

“True courage is cool and calm. The bravest people show the least brutal, bullying insolence; in moments of danger they are the most serene, pleasant, and free.”

“The really brave man simply acts brave; he doesn't have to talk about it.”

“If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.”

“’Tis said that courage is common, but the immense esteem in which it is held proves it to be rare.”

“Courage is the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or diverted from a chosen course of action.”

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”

“The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens or by the threats of an imperious tyrant.”

“The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.”

“Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues, because unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.”

“Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.”

“Without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men, such as the subjects of this book, have lived.”

“What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out, not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.”

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”

“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.”

“Courage is the obvious virtue of the stupid.”

“Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values.”

“He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.”

“Real courage, however, is shown by those who don't merely follow the trend or status quo but stand up for what is right and truly just and do not kneel.”

“Everybody's afraid, but to do your job in combat you have to put your fear down.”

“A man of courage is also full of faith.”

“Stir shallow water and it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.”

“Courage in danger is half the battle.”

“It is in great dangers that we see great courage.”

“A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”

“Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.”