Quotes About Courage

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

A deep concern of mine is that leaders in the technology sector have not developed a culture that insists upon courage, honor, duty, and humility - what we might call a culture of virtue.

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

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.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.

You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.

Eggs is great at leading the Boxtrolls, and that's probably my favorite trait of his. He is a Boxtroll, but he hasn't lost all of his human virtues. He can get out of his box, and he can fight back, which the Boxtrolls can't.

There's power in naming yourself, in proclaiming to the world that this is who you are. Wielding this power is often a difficult step for many transgender people because it's also a very visible one.

Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible - to live in the truth, as I say - to get out of the lie.

Harvey Milk was a friend of mine, an important gay leader in San Francisco in the '70s, and he carried a really important message about how important it was to be visible, how important it was to come out, and that was the single most important thing we had to do.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

Universal basic income is not a solution in search of a problem - it is the obvious solution that has been in front of us for years. It only requires us to have the vision, empathy and courage to adopt it for the American people before it is too late.

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.