All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.
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:
I find that moral courage is the most valuable and most usually absent characteristic.
Isn’t it the path to glory: what I have done,
My virtue, courage, resolution and generosity?
At a moment when we need a leader with courage and integrity, we get a pompous clown.
I hope that many women will see this and take courage to enter into politics.
That all men would be cowards if they dare,
Some men we know have courage to declare.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.