John F. Kennedy Quotes

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have.

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

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

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

courage is the gift of character

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.

Courage can be just as infectious as fear.

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

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

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

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

Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite warnings, despite hazards of all kinds, to attack the task at hand. Often, it is indistinguishable from stupidity.