David Mallet Quotes

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

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

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

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

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

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

Part of courage is simple consistency.

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

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 a kind of salvation.

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.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

'Oz' means strength - and it also means courage.

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

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 is a peculiar kind of fear.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

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

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 is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

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

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.