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- Courage is not simply one of the virtues , but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929
- It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
- Claude Monet
- Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- The stories of past courage can define that ingredient-they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- The strongest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), 1946
- The emotions that good hunters need to cultivate are love and service more than courage. The sentiments of the hunt then become translated into art.
- James Swan, In Defense of Hunting
- Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what he would be capable of with the world looking on.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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