Quotes about courage
courage opportunity favors
Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
courage sleep names
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. Salman Rushdie
courage brave mind
Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves, There is a nobleness of mind that heals Wounds beyond salves. William Cartwright
courage moving blessing
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs, And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. William Cowper
courage two enemy
[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his! William Halsey
courage character giving
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. W. Somerset Maugham
courage military heart
I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship. William Makepeace Thackeray
courageous display
Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life. Zig Ziglar
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 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
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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.
courage real fire
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.