"Mickey's kind of like Abe Lincoln; he keeps catching people," said Robert W. Creamer, who wrote and researched the 1964 book "The Quality of Courage" for Mantle.
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, the daughter of President Kennedy, reminded us of the quality of courage displayed by her father and her uncle Ted whose legacies highlight the Democratic party's commitments to equal opportunity and health care for all.
But along with this daunting heritage came qualities of courage and loyalty.
The qualities of courage, love, respect for the individual and responsibility beyond self that have been illustrated in New York since the tragedy are essentials for decision making.
She saw, she heard, she felt and through her own involvement she bore witness to qualities of courage and goodwill that all but evaporated in the climate of passion that flowed from an unreasoning fear of change".
He took the same qualities of courage, empathy and perceptiveness to South Africa in 1984, where his coverage of the death throes of apartheid soon brought him an international reporter of the year award.
In the 19th century, the great Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt wrote a version of Ramayana called The Slaying of Meghanada, in which Ravana is the hero, displaying the qualities of courage and honour lacking in Rama.
Echoing Gordon Brown's call for moral values in markets, Williams called for a rediscovery of virtue: "... the qualities of courage, intelligent and generous foresight, self-critical awareness and concern for balanced universal welfare which, under other names, have been part of the vocabulary of European ethics for two and half thousand years: fortitude, prudence, temperance and justice.
But the admiration for the ruling class expressed in her novels, and their qualities of courage, ease and tradition (plus great clothes, houses and horses) is undercut and qualified by other feelings and observations, including of the dreadful lives of servants.
Worse, at 51, he is considered a puppy.More fundamentally, are the qualities of courage and integrity Mr Woodford has clearly show in revealing a massive accounting fraud the characteristics one wants in a boss to lead the company once it has been cleaned up?
8 A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Hodder, £4.99) Little Sara Crewe is treated like a princess when her millionaire father deposits her in Miss Minchin's Academy for Young Ladies, but when he goes missing and the millions evaporate, she becomes a ragged skivvy for the school, forced to rely on princesshood's inner qualities of courage and dignity.
