Baltasar Gracian Quotes

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

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

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

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.

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

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

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

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

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

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

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

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.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

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

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

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.