Oriana Fallaci Quotes

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

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

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

Courage is the rarest of all good traits

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

You can buy muscles, but you can't buy COJONES!

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

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.

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

[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .

Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.

Even in the most bold and daring acts, courage is a matter of the heart.

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

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

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.

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be.

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.