Wisdom Quotes, page 111

“The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.”

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”

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

“Fortitude, the virtue that enables us to endure pain and banish fear, is of great use in producing tranquility.”

“Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.”

“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”

“Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.”

“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.”

“It is in the dark shade of courage alone that the spell can be broken.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Strange as it sounds, steady, patient growth in freedom is probably the most difficult task of all, requiring the greatest courage.”

“Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.”

“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.”

“The burden which is well borne becomes light.”

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

“Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.”

“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.”

“Such is the essence of valor: an unthinking moment, a spark along the spinal nerves, predetermined by the sum total of everything you have ever done, wished to do or not to do, and wish you had done, or hadn't, and then comes the pain.”

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

“The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.”

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

“We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.”

“Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.”

“It does not matter a feather whether a man is supported by a patron or a client, if he himself lacks courage.”