George H. W. Bush Quotes

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

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

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

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

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.

Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right.

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

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.

courage is the gift of character

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. 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.

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

Fear could never make virtue.

All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.