Bernhard Schlink Quotes

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop.

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

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

Courage is action, not talk.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

Courage is the most important of the virtues because it is the one that makes all the others possible.

In a sense, all of us have the capacity to be courageous.

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Calculation never made a hero.