A Foolish Figure

The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

--Mark Twain

In honor of Veterans day, here is my collection of quotations on courage.

To all the men and women of the military who have exemplified, and who now continue to exemplify, courage as they face enemies in foreign lands, and even, at times, at home:  Thank you!

 "Courage is rightly esteemed to be the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
--Winston Churchill

"Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice."
--Dr. Samuel Johnson

"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."
--Clare Booth Luce

 "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear."
--Mark Twain

"Courage is being scared to death--and saddling up anyway."
--John Wayne.

“Courage is grace under pressure.”
--Ernest Hemingway, 1899 - 1961

"There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."
–J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone

"Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared."
--Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point
--C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters