Quotes About Courage

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of courage. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but in expressing them correctly; and we can now see that it is biologically undeniable that unless we harness passion to the service of spirit there can be no progress. Sooner or later, then, and in spite of all our incredulity, the world will take this step— because the greater truth always prevails and the greater good emerges in the end.

Come try my strength, you dogs who thought to attack helpless prey! But when you do, O beasts of night, know that you face the Lord of Night. I am Death!

When you have something you would die to protect it ceases to be a matter of courage. Niobe explained, You just know what you have to do and you can't afford fear.

One is never so strong as when one is broken.

Ânito e Meleto podem matar-me, mas não me podem fazer mal. Platão, Apologia de Sócrates (30 C-D)

Temer a morte, Atenienses, não é mais que julgar ser sábio,sem o ser, porque é imaginar que se sabe o que se não sabe. É que ninguém sabe o que é a morte nem se, por acaso, ela será para o homem o maior dos bens. Mas temem-na como se soubessem com segurança que é o maior dos males.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

To the degree that I cease to persue my deepest passions, I will gradually be controlled by my deepest fears.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. / Nije problem dijete koje se boji mraka; prava tragedija su odrasli koji se boje svjetla.

Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know;—that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.

We can easily forget a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his action, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting life a good or a bad man.

the champion of justice [...] would be as a man who has fallen among wild beasts, unwilling to share their misdeeds, and unable to hold out singly against the savagery of all.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew [b] that it is the greatest of evils.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

When a man is out of his depth, whether he has fallen into a little swimming-bath or into mid-ocean, he has to swim all the same.

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know. No man knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessing for a human being; and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that is is the greatest of evil. (Socrates in The Apology)

harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in warfare or in any enforced business, and who, when he has failed […] confronts fortune with steadfast endurance and repels her strokes

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.