Quotes About Courage

We need to own our weakness, our hurt, our pain, and say it out loud so that we can name what is coming up and why. You deserve it. You deserve to feel the heartbreak and the pain so that once and for all you stop holding yourself back from feeling whatever it is you've tried to mask. No, it's not easy but you are worth the work.

Sometimes we are all so afraid to be honest with ourselves because we know that honesty will lead to somewhere.

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

What is courage?" I ask. "Bearing witness. That is a form of courage.

My breathe would catch at the sight of violets-so common in the woods at home, so surprising in the mountains. The violet's message was "Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in." p264

idea at play here is that of "morality." When young women are taught about morality, there's not often talk of compassion, kindness, courage, or integrity. There is, however, a lot of talk about hymens

You just remember to say, "Screw them.

I'd rather be a bitch than a doormat.

Tolkien tells us that we do not charge into battle because we know we will win. We do so regardless of odds and outcomes, because we have to.

One can only understand the power of the fear to be different, the fear to be only a few steps away from the herd, if one understands the depths of the need not to be separated.

Ancak, tam anlam?yla kendisi olmaya doÄŸru bir ad?m atmaya çal??an herkes, korkusuzluk yönünde yeni bir ad?m at?ld???nda, çok kesin bir güç ve sevinç duygusunun uyand???n? bilir. Yeni bir yaÅŸam evresinin baÅŸlam?? olduÄŸunu duyumsar. Goethe'nin dizelerindeki hakikati hissedebilir: Evimi bir hiçliÄŸin üzerine kurdum, bu yüzden bütün dünya benimdir.

The courage of the authoritarian character is essentially a courage to suffer what fate or its personal representative or "leader" may have destined him for. To suffer without complaining is his highest virtue—not the courage of trying to end suffering or at least to diminish it. Not to change fate, but to submit to it, is the heroism of the authoritarian character.

La menzogna può legare a un partito, ma solo la verità in ultima analisi porta alla liberazione dell'uomo. Troppi tuttavia sono colore che hanno paura della libertà e preferiscono l'illusione.

are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern—and to take the jump and stake everything on these values.

The courage of despair is the opposite of the courage of love, just as the faith in power is the opposite of the faith in life.

As long as one was an integral part of that world, unaware of the possibilities and responsibilities of individual action, one did not need to be afraid of it. When one has become an individual , one stands alone and faces the world in all its perilous and overpowering aspects.

Reconoceremos que mientras tememos conscientemente no ser amados, el temor real, aunque habitualmente inconsciente, es el de amar. Amar significa comprometerse sin garantías, entregarse totalmente con la esperanza de producir amor en la persona amada. El amor es un acto de fe, y quien tenga poca fe también tiene poco amor.

Çünkü devrim, hiçbir zaman umutsuzluk temeli üzerine kurulmam??t?r ve de kurulamaz.

Fantazie a sny jsou za?átkem mnoha skutk? a nic by nebylo horÅ¡í než je podce?ovat a snícímu brát odvahu k nim. Jde o to, jaký druh fantazií máme - zda nás vedou vpÃ…â"¢ed, anebo zda nás drží v Ã…â"¢etÄ›zech neproduktivnosti.

It wants to convince the reader that all his attempts for love are bound to fail, unless he tries most actively to develop his total personality, so as to achieve a productive orientation; that satisfaction in individual love cannot be attained without the capacity to love one's neighbor, without true humility, courage, faith and discipline.

Es preciso pasar por toda una serie de experiencias de amor fallidas para no buscar inconscientemente en la pareja un eco del amor materno y paterno. Este tardío proceso de desvinculación del amor materno y paterno suele ir acompañado de dolorosas experiencias de renuncia y pérdida. Quien decide resolver un problema mediante el amor ha de tener valor suficiente para superar los desengaños y permanecer paciente a pesar de los reveses.

Zum Selbstmord neige ich nicht, denn ich verspüre nichts von jenem Tatendrang, der andere nötigt, so lange mit dem Kopf gegen die Wand zu rennen, bis der Kopf nachgibt.

Mut ohne Klugheit ist Unfug, und Klugheit ohne Mut ist Quatsch!

Vom Mut Ich möchte an dieser Stelle ein bisschen über den Mut reden. Anton hat eben einem Jungen, der größer ist als er, zwei Ohrfeigen gegeben. Und da könnte man ja nun meinen, Anton habe Mut bewiesen. Es war aber gar nicht Mut, es war Wut. Und das ist ein kleiner Unterschied, nicht nur im Anfangsbuchstaben. Mut kann man nur haben, während man kaltes Blut hat. [...] Mut beweist man nicht mit der Faust allein, man braucht den Kopf dazu.