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.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

"Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.

​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.

Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Courage is the ability to be able to cope with the disappointment of not getting what we desire, and yet, move on in life.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work; a future. To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.