Best courage & quality Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

“We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.”

Men Needs Done Wisdom Work Quality Courage Virtue Iron Rough Resolution Manhood Shrinking True Man Indomitable Indomitable Will

Book:The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life

“The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity and hardness.”

Together Fighting Quality Courage Dog Features Nerves Tenacity Breeding Shepherds Firmness Reliability Hardness Attentiveness Watchfulness Breeders German Shepherds

Author:Max von Stephanitz

“I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.”

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Book:Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

“[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.”

Believe Faces Quality Courage Intellectual Disappointment Judgement Skepticism Physical Courage

Author:John Charles Polanyi

“There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.”

Humans Heart Quality Compassion Courage Greater Highest Accidents Disaster Treasure Tragic Human Qualities Tragic Accidents

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.”

World Quality Courage Essentials Yield Eulogy Moral Courage Disapproval Courage To Change

Book:Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

“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.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”

Source: The Trumpet of Conscience

“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.”

“Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.”

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Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.”

Long Two Three Sound Quality Courage Four Feet Hundred Bravery Blue Rose Complicated Smell Wide Piano Pounds Complicated Things

Book:The Quality of Courage

Source: The Quality of Courage

“When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.”

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Author:Carlos Castaneda

“The first of all qualities of a general is courage.”

Firsts Quality Courage

Book:1776

Source: 1776

“Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.”

Inspirational Firsts May Two Light Hours Quality Courage Intellect Indispensable Inner Light Darkest Hour

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.”

Inspirational Firsts War Quality Courage Strength All Things Warrior Don't Give Up Spiritual Warrior

Book:On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war

Source: On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war

“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”

Men Inspirational Wisdom Three Quality Compassion Moral Courage Philosophical Gambling Compassionate Moral Courage Confucianism Chinese Philosophy No Compassion Compassion For Yourself

Author:Confucius

“Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand fast in the face of opposition, hardship or danger.”

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Author:Jo Baer

“My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.”

“Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will.”

Two Choices Games Chance Quality Moral Courage Cold Alternatives Aptitude

Author:Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”

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Book:The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder

Source: The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder

“Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.”

Kind Common Quality Courage Virtue Color Hypocrisy Modesty Unequivocal

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without . . . the average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.”

“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.”

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Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity.”

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