Brian Jacques Quotes

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

There was no quality Robert Kennedy admired more than courage.

There are themes that somehow stir me and that I find very interesting. They're themes that deal with leadership, the nature of bravery and courage, and how to define those.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story.

Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.

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

You pick out the big men! I’ll make them brave!”

His Excellency General Washington, never appeared to so much advantage as in the hour of distress.

When you see weakness in a hero, you are doing something to his identity. You take something away from the kids, the next generation; you steal away giving them anything to look up to.

My mission my whole career was just to be somebody that you can look at and say, 'That's the guy I want to go into battle with.'

Wonder Woman is out there very much defending the right and being strong and being a positive role model.

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

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

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

One man with courage is a majority.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

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