George Farquhar Quotes

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

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

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

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

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

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

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

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

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

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.

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.

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

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

It is curious–curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

I'm simply saying that heroes are people whose activities, whose attitudes, and whose judgment you just think, 'Wow. That's good. That's right. That's real.'

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Dad had a huge influence on me. I really look up to him for his brave acts. He was an outspoken man. For him, if it was the right thing, he would stand up for the smallest guy around him.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.