Here are some of my favorite quotes on two very important virtues, courage and honor. Our socity needs more people with such traits.


"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin Luther King Jr.

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." -Mark Twain

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers." -Dorothy Bernard

"The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. -Corra Harris

"Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards." -Lois McMaster Bujold,

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

"None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear." -Ferdinand Foch

"An honor is not diminished for being shared." -Lois McMaster Bujold

"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught." -H. L. Mencken

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." -Harold Wilson

"Fortune helps the brave." -Terence

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." -Oprah Winfrey

"Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away." -Unknown

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

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. " -Harper Lee

"Honor does not have to be defended." -Robert J. Sawyer

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