Quotes about courage
courage simple maturity
In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of her morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period. Rollo May
courage creative patterns
Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.
courage conformity hallmark
The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly
courage creativity simple
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
courage moving long
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
courage responsibility decision
Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
courage moving anxiety
Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
courage reality like-love
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
courage mean cat
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
courage inspiration fighting
Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight. Stephen King
courage mistake people
a lot of people have been telling me how brave I am. I've always thought it was a mistake to get a reputation for courage, on the grounds that if you acted bravely once, people would expect you to act courageously again, and you might be having an off day. Starhawk
courage silly ignorant
Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough. Stanley Kubrick
courage self-confidence men
It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair. Soren Kierkegaard
courage men getting-high
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
courageous persons hard
Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person. Sara Blakely
courage hurt men
Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be. William Faulkner
courage simple answers
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. Ronald Reagan
courage war patriotic
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
courage mean imperfection
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind. Saint Francis de Sales
courage generosity effort
It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping.
courage principles faces
Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval. Thomas S. Monson
courage men thinking
A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.
courage peace volunteer
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Robert Kennedy
courage yield eulogy
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
courage soldier coward
A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once. Tupac Shakur
courage sea land
Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him. Samuel Rutherford
courage wind venture
My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.
courage honesty work
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. Samuel Johnson
courage yield faces
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly. Virgil
courage men odds
Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory. Walter Lord
courage bravery doe
He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage. Voltaire
courage men perfect
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. William Tecumseh Sherman
courage people deals
When one trusts this inner universal power, it automatically draws forth the trust of the people one deals with. Walter Russell