Oriana Fallaci Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

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

Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

In a sense, all of us have the capacity to be courageous.

We could all do with a little more courage, frankly.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

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

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

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

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 is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.