John McCain Quotes

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

There are themes that somehow stir me and that I find very interesting. They're themes that deal with leadership, the nature of bravery and courage, and how to define those.

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

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.

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership

Courage is essential to leadership.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Character is power.

It does take courage to be in public life.

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

I don’t care how honest a man is. If he is timid, he is no good.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.

One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.

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.

The day I am afraid to do, that is the day I am no longer fit to lead.

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

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind

Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

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