Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Courage

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

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage, Veterans Day, Strong

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage, Men, Order

The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage, Art, Real

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage, School, Law

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage, School, Boys

There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage, Morning, Flower

"What's Wrong With the World". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1910.