Quotes about courage
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. Tacitus
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In valor there is hope.
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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.
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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
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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. Rumi
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Revile those who flatter you.
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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.
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If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.
courage discipline gold
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
courage kindness order
It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.
courage moving feels
When you move beyond your fear, you feel free. Spencer Johnson
courage dignity absence
Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it. Scott Turow
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. Robert Browning
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Courage is not the absence of fear Richard Stengel
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism. Rand Paul
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To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is. Rajneesh
courage princess race
If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Rainer Maria Rilke
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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
courage fall risk
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. Tobias Smollett
courage men desire
I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. Socrates
courage mistake spirit
It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.