Courage as a virtue

Lots of virtues have been portrayed by various people as being the most important virtue including courage

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage”. Maya Angelou

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

C. S. Lewis