“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
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American author and poet 1928–2014Related quotes
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
“Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.”
Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire
"Water", p. 113; this is often quoted as simply: Without courage, all other virtues are useless. <!-- Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989 (1994) p. 207 -->
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.
“Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“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
Jack Donovan (1974) American activist, editor and writer
Pg 41
The Way of Men (2012)
“The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Attributed
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are