“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”
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“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”
“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”
“Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.”
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.”
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
“A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.”
“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.”
“A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”
“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.”
“Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.”
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”
“Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”
“I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.”
“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”
“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”