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Courage Quotes by Rollo May
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has…
- 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.…
- The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's…
- Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes,…
- Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather…
- Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
- Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
- Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
- There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
- Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
- 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…
- Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.
- It is infinitely safer to know that the man at the top has his doubts, as you and I have ours, yet has the courage…
- The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
- 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.…
- Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one…
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