Courage Quotes

Alan Cohen:

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Aristotle:

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Baltasar Gracian:

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Bernadette Devlin:

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

Buckminster Fuller:

Dare to be naive.

Charles DuBois:

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Dorothy Thompson:

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Dorothy Thompson:

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.

Eleanor Roosevelt:

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Erich Fromm:

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.