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Courage Quotes by Anais Nin
- We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply…
- We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me…
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or…
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and…
- Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal…
- I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more…
- It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test yout limits... to break through barriers. And the day came…
- I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush…
More Courage Quotes
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. — Teresa of Avila
- Action is the antidote to despair. — Joan Baez