Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“The courage of New England was the "courage of conscience."”
It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
Address at Ipswich Centennial (1834).
“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”
"Live" with Thomas Sowell https://www.aei.org/publication/live-thomas-sowell/, The American Enterprise, September 2004.
2000s
“Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.”
The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=BKwxAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Those+who+have+courage+to+love+should+have+courage+to+suffer%22&pg=PA77#v=onepage
“It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 44e
“It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.”
"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.
“He's got courage," Alex said.
"Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almosthim and--”
Source: Alanna: The First Adventure
