Quotes About Courage

Exchanges of vulnerability, which we naturally tend to avoid, are the pathway through which trusting cooperation is built.

In Dixie's land, we'll took our stand,To lib an' die in Dixie!

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

The whole point of having heroes is you can look up to people who can get away with whatever they want. Because like you said, they've always had the courage to do whatever they want. Right?

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

They say I was afraid to stand up to a paper tiger. It is all such nonsense. What good would it have done me in the last hour of my life to know that though our great nation and the United States were in complete ruins, the national honor of the Soviet Union was intact?

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I've never read anywhere that you have to understand everything before you take a feeble step in the right direction.

will not tremble," Cicero wrote in the first century BC, "however much it is tortured.

Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

He had an impeccable sense of timing, knew when to wait and when to move, and declared the state even before it was ready, because he knew that another opportunity might never arise. Not

Sometimes situations call for us to act strong and brave even when we don't feel that way, but the payoff is better if we don't pretend when we feel weak or scared so that we allow people to show the kindness that's in them

Like Pi, we all have tigers within us. Lil demons which are a part of us. If you can't run away from them, welcome them, feed them and listen to what they will have to say. There is really not a whole lot to be afraid of.

more often, the payoff is better if you don't pretend you feel strong when you feel weak or pretend that you are brave when you're scared. I really believe the world might be a safer place if everyone who felt vulnerable wore flashers that said, "I have a problem and I'm doing the best I can".

Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

At the heart of all boldness regrets is the thwarted possibility of growth.

The lesson is plain: Speak up. Ask him out. Take that trip. Start that business. Step off the train.

He preserved the union and freed the slaves.

The most telling demonstration of this point came from several dozen people from all over the world who described their regret—their failure to be bold—with the same five words: "Not being true to myself.