David Brooks Quotes

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

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

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

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

courage is the gift of character

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

Courage is its own reward.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

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

Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

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

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

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

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana.

This world is not for cowards.

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

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

Being brave is not as easy as it looks.