Quotes About Courage

The entire notion of biography is grounded in the arbitrary ascription of a causal relation between specified traits and subsequent events. Now consider the cemetery. The graveyard of failed persons will be full of people who shared the following traits: courage, risk taking, optimism, et cetera. Just like the population of millionaires. There may be some differences in skills, but what truly separates the two is for the most part a single factor: luck. Plain luck.

First ethical rule: If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud. Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.

And when you take risks, insults by half-men (small men, those who don't risk anything) are similar to barks by nonhuman animals: you can't feel insulted by a dog.

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

was not intelligent enough, nor strong enough, to even try to fight my emotions.

those who don't take risks should never be involved in making decisions.

Selfish courage is not courage. A foolish gambler is not committing an act of courage, especially if he is risking other people's funds or has a family to feed.*4

People are scared of the alternative.

Un hombre es honorable en proporción a los riesgos personales que asume por sus opiniones

It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period rather than have it spread

Stay robust to how others treat you.

Much progress comes from the young because of their relative freedom from the system and courage to take action that older people lose as they become trapped in life.

when you have a very limited loss you need to get as aggressive, as speculative, and sometimes as "unreasonable" as you can be.

the highest form of virtue is unpopular.

Avoid calling heroes those who had no other choice.

We need people to take (bounded) risks.

We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

I love taking small losses,"he says. "I just need my winners to be large.

he had so little to lose. She accepted since she had no choice.

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to.

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future—but this is not necessarily bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

se você não assumir riscos, não há nada que possa fazer para tornar-se grande, nada.

To accept it takes both understanding and courage.