Courage is not simply one of the virtues... | C. S. Lewis

Courage

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

- C. S. Lewis

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I boxed 15 years in a club.

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Other quotes by C. S. Lewis

Adversity Years

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

- C. S. Lewis

Hell Road

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

- C. S. Lewis

Day Fact Thinking

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

- C. S. Lewis

Eyes

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

- C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

- C. S. Lewis

Dream

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

- C. S. Lewis

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Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

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Courage is grace under pressure.

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

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Courage First

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

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Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

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