Quotes About Courage

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Swallow your poison, for you need it badly.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. The meaninglessness of suffering, not suffering itself, was the curse that lay over mankind so far.

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

Wohl bin ich ein Wald und eine Nacht dunkler Bäume: doch wer sich vor meinem Dunkel nicht scheut, der findet auch Rosenhänge unter meinen Zypressen.

Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? 'Thou shalt' is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, 'I will.

Saying yes to life, even in its strangest and hardest problems.

Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.

Courage, however, is the best slayer—courage which attacks: which slays even death itself, for it says, 'Was that life? Well then! Once more!

Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself.

throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.