“Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.”

— Winston S. Churchill

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire

"Water", p. 113; this is often quoted as simply: Without courage, all other virtues are useless. 
Source: Desert Solitaire (1968)
Context: Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

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

Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987) American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist

“Courage is an animating spirit of masculinity, and it is crucial to any meaningful definition of masculinity. Courage and strength are synergetic virtues. An overabundance of one is worth less without and adequate amount of the other.”

Jack Donovan (1974) American activist, editor and writer

Pg 41
The Way of Men (2012)

“Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values.”

Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist

Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 13
Context: Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

As quoted in USA Today (5 March 1988)
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
As quoted in Diversity : Leaders Not Labels (2006) by Stedman Graham, p. 224

“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We cannot be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“Good and bad lies within and without one other loses its mean and essence.”

Zaman Ali (1993) Pakistani philosopher

"Humanity", Ch.VII "Humanity: A Way Forward", Part VIII

“Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.”

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