“I believe Love is the most courageous act of which a human being is capable. The word courage even stems from the root word “heart” (coeur). Scientifically speaking, it is quantifiable only by recognition of its quality.”
Space: What love's got to do with it - The Space Review (2004)
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“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) 18th-century poet and author from Scotland
Act II, scene vii.
The Regicide (1749)
“Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.”
Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist
“Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.”
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In Great Contemporaries, "Alfonso XIII" (1937).
The 1930s
“Another word for creativity is courage.”
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist
Variant: Creativity takes courage.
Sheldon Vanauken (1914–1996) American journalist
Source: A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph