Sentences with phrase «physical courage»

A fine and decent person, beyond question but I thought a poor leader lacking physical courage on the field.

Seven - time winner of the Tour de France, world - famous exemplar of physical courage (he survived testicular cancer in his twenties), Armstrong, having beaten back countless accusations that he was doping, retired in 2005.

For some, the work required actual physical courage, a risk to life and limb in icy wastes or on the high seas.

The need for such courage has not entirely evaporated, nor is physical courage obviated across the board.

Physical courage obviously.

King's friends, as well as his earliest biographers, idolized the man, regarding him as an ideal mix of physical courage, charming wit, and dazzling intelligence.

For some, the work required actual physical courage, a risk to life and limb in icy wastes or on the high seas.

While I marvel at John Paul II's physical courage and tenacity, I worry at every unignorable new sign that the Pope is in frail health.

Another saw her as «the most terrible incarnation we have of the female prig - pharisee,» and C. S. Lewis found little to admire: Fanny has «nothing except rectitude of mind; neither passion, nor physical courage, nor wit, nor resource.»

But for all her physical courage and amazing resilience, it was her intellectual courage that marked her out from the ordinary run of politicians.

«Had we but half their physical courage none could stand against us.

Few there are who better exemplify moral and physical courage.

I think this is important because most quotes about bravery refer to physical courage.