Quotes by Courage Courage never to submit of yield. John Milton submityieldcourage If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules. John Sculley courageworrypeople An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion. John Steinbeck hurtcouragelying Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so. John F. Kennedy braverycouragemen The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind. John Stuart Mill sacrificeintellectualcourage We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life. John W. Gardner powerfulcouragefear The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. John Stuart Mill vigorgeniuscourage For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. John F. Kennedy courageforgetmen Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. John Wayne veterans-daycouragefear Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous. John Ruskin ruderacecourage Live in your hopes and not in your fears. Johnny Majors confidencecouragemotivational We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good to these men to feel superior to animals, but does it not seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it? Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage. John Steinbeck huntingcourageanimal It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. John Wooden motivational-sportsbasketballcourage Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done. Jon Kabat-Zinn meditationspecialcourage Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe colorhypocrisycourage There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. Jonas Salk ambitioncouragedream As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe couragedarkinspirational Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to alter during the next fifty years then we must re-embrace Byron’s ideal: the cultured thug. Jonathan Bowden thugcourageyears Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe responsibilitycouragedream I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I feel eating an $80 lunch with my privileged friends to discuss hunger and poverty. That's when my soul feels imperiled. Jonathan Kozol adversityhumilitycourage«3233343536373839404142»
