Paul Johnson Quotes

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

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

Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness, and France is saved.

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

One man with courage is a majority.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

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

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

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

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

In politics, guts is all.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

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.

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.