Dorothea Lange Quotes

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

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

Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.

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

What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

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

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

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.

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

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

Valor is superior to number.

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

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

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

You are, amongst the nations, what Hercules was amongst the heroes, nature has made you sturdy and powerful; your strength matches your virtue and your cause is that of the gods themselves.

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

I am not better or cleverer than anyone of you. But I remain undaunted, and that is why the leadership belongs to me. In darker moments than the present I did not lose courage—indeed I made still greater sacrifices.

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.

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