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Courage 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.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.