I am not ready to die because it requires infinitely higher courage to live.
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:
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.
The fight for equality requires both courage and persistence.”
Every early morning, every late night, every decision made with both courage and care,”
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?
Writing is also like love, if one can't have the courage to be a renunciant, they cannot write well.