Quotes About Courage

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! Freedom

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm To be alive at all involves some risk. Harold Macmillan

Why? Why did we walk like meek sheep to the slaughter-house? Why did we not fight back? What had we to lose? Nothing but our lives. Why did we not run away and hide? We might have had a chance to survive. Why did we walk deliberately and obediently into their clutches? I know why. Because we had faith in humanity. Because we did not really think that human beings were capable of committing such crimes.

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

If you get dealt a bad hand, fold and ask for new cards. There's no sense in hanging on to it for years, hoping things will change.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

If you panic...you die.

You'll Never Walk Alone

only the timid, the insecure and the ignorant conformed to the rules that society made.

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Who are you, world, that you should frighten me?

Henry looked around the rocky top of the mountain. He did not want to frighten the girls, but he knew that the only way down was gone. The rocky sides of Old Flat Top gave no spot to get a foothold.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Be the flame, not the moth.

It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him.

My great treasure is that I am my own master, that I am not dependent upon anyone, and that I am not afraid of misfortunes.

La pazienza è la più eroica delle virtù giusto perché non ha nessuna apparenza d'eroico.