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In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.Collection: Courage
Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be.Collection: Courage
Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.Collection: Courage
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.Collection: Courage
Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.Collection: Courage
Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.Collection: Courage
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.Collection: Courage
Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow.Collection: Courage
He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.Collection: Courage
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.Collection: Courage
Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.Collection: Courage
Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.Collection: Courage
Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.Collection: Courage
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.Collection: Courage
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.Collection: Courage
I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.Collection: Courage
What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.Collection: Courage
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.Collection: Courage
Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguishedCollection: Courage
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.Collection: Courage
The first of all qualities of a general is courage.Collection: Courage
Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.Collection: Courage
The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantlyCollection: Courage
Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.Collection: Courage
Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.Collection: Courage
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.Collection: Courage
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.Collection: Courage
The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.Collection: Courage
Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.Collection: Courage
Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.Collection: Courage
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. Strange as it sounds, steady, patient growth in freedom is probably the most difficult task of all, requiring the greatest courage. Thus if the term "hero" is used in this discussion at all, it must refer not to the special acts of outstanding persons, but to the heroic element potentially in every man.Collection: Courage
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.Collection: Courage
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.Collection: Courage
I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.Collection: Courage
What would you do if you weren’t afraid?Collection: Courage
When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’Collection: Courage
If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.Collection: Courage
Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.Collection: Courage
Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.Collection: Courage
It is in the small things we see it. The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.Collection: Courage
You can’t test courage cautiously.Collection: Courage
You can’t catch the big fish by skimming the surface.Collection: Courage
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.Collection: Courage
It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can’t do because we feed ourselves so much denial.Collection: Courage
If you’re willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you’ll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.Collection: Courage
Even in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.Collection: Courage
Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.Collection: Courage
One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one’s capacity.Collection: Courage
It’s when you run away that you’re most liable to stumble.Collection: Courage