Quotes by Courage Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil. Dean Koontz distancecouragekindness Courage and clemency are equal virtues. Delarivier Manley forgivenesscouragekindness Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. Delmore Schwartz noblecouragelove Surprise yourself every day with your own courage. Denholm Elliott courageinspiringinspirational Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. Dean Koontz couragedesiregiving No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courage—courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker. Dennis McKenna takenreligiouscourage I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me. Dennis Wholey couragefearthinking Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. Denis Waitley moving-forwardcouragerelationship God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities. Desiderius Erasmus physiciansleadershipcourage Fortune favours the audacious. Desiderius Erasmus favourluckcourage Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. Diane de Poitiers sunsetdespaircourage We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. Dietrich Bonhoeffer injusticewheelscourage If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. Dirk Benedict condolencescouragesympathy It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik often-iscouragepeople Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic. Don Young icedustcourage You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness. Don DeLillo bravecouragewant They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice. Donald O'Connor horsepracticecourage One morning you will awake to find that you are the person you dreamed of doing what you wanted to do simply because you had the courage to believe in your potential and to hold on to your dream. Donna Levin couragedreammorning Courage is fear that has said its prayers. Dorothy Bernard couragefearinspiring An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all. Dorothy Day hopecouragelove«1011121314151617181920»
