One cannot fight an enemy if one does not even have the courage to identify him.
Courage Quotes
The quotes worth a second look here are the quiet ones. In Dryden’s Amphitryon (1690) a character says he is “whistling to keep myself from being afraid”, which is still a fair description of how most courage works. Samuel Johnson, according to Boswell (1791), said courage is so necessary to virtue that it is respected even when it goes along with vice. Nassim Taleb, in The Bed of Procrustes (2010), has it the other way round from the usual advice: mental clarity is the child of courage, not the reverse. The psychologist Rollo May is the most-quoted modern writer here.
Two of the page’s better-known quotes are flagged as misattributed: the Churchill line about the courage to continue, which has no traceable source (see Success), and a passage on the courage of our questions that is credited to Carl Sagan.
Most quoted on courage:
The story of their gallantry came to epitomize a spirit of courage, duty and self-sacrifice.
“He was a leader who exemplified courage, a sense of purpose, vision.”
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
In a slothfull peace both courages will effeminate, and manners corrupt.
Courage, mon ami, le diable est mort!
Take courage, my friend, the devil is dead!
Take courage, lover!
Could you endure such pain
At any hand but hers?
"You know you're brave the day courage becomes your only option."
Our tragic age demands poetry of courage and not whimpers about the inevitable end of all maya.