Alice Miller Quotes

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

Courage is the rarest of all good traits

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

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

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Courage? Well, that's a difficult quality to define. If a man has never known fear can you call him courageous?

You've got to be brave.

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

Cowardice is no virtue.

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

There is salvation only for the brave.