Walter Lord Quotes

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

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.

To the brave nothing is difficult.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

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

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

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.

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

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 mounteth with occasion

The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

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

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

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

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

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

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