"The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them."
― Thomas Aquinas
Topic(s):
Courage
More From Thomas Aquinas
- "If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."
- "By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."
- "Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
More In Courage
- "To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled."― Dale Murphy
- "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."― Mark Twain
- "It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook."― James Keller