Quotes about courage
courage believe decide-upon
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. Ralph Waldo Emerson
courage humanity individuality
And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
courage men individuality
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
courage coward trying
This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. Swami Vivekananda
courage strong men
There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them. Tony Randall
courage fate enemy
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. Thucydides
courage secret
The secret of freedom, courage....
courage opposites bravery
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. Robert Anthony
courage fear men
Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.] Robert A. Heinlein
courage thinking clear
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. Thomas Szasz
courage political world
Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world. Tommy Douglas
courage people courageous
You have to be courageous to not spend money, ... and we don't have many people who have that courage.. Tom Coburn
courage knows terrified
Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are. Tom Clancy
courage america leader
I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before. Tadao Ando
courage determination work
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. Tacitus
courage valor there-is-hope
In valor there is hope.
courage women failure
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. Rosalynn Carter
courage creativity using-your-talents
Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy. Rollo May
courage profound creative
Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be.
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.
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 soulmate self-esteem
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
courage moving despair
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
courage ease foundation
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. Rumi
courage
Revile those who flatter you.
courage children moving
Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game.