“Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.”
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
“Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.”
“Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.”
“Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.”
“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)”