“Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.”
Courage is not the absence of fear — that line shows up here more than once, and for good reason. These quotes explore bravery in all its forms: physical, moral, emotional, and the quiet kind that shows up when you simply refuse to quit.
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
“Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.”
“Genius is talent set on fire by courage.”
“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”
“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.”
“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.”
“Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.”
“Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.”
“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.”
“He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”
“Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.”
“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.”