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Philosophy Quotes About Courage

Courage is often defined against fear: not fearlessness, but right action when fear is present. Classical and modern writers disagree about whether courage is mainly military, civic, or moral.

13 quotations on courage

  1. It is worse to do injustice than to suffer it.
  2. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
  3. He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
  4. Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding!
  5. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
  6. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
  7. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
  8. The Master said: When you have faults, do not fear to correct them.
  9. The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable.
  10. So too, by doing just acts we become just, by doing temperate acts temperate, and by doing brave acts brave.
  11. The Master said: The wise are not perplexed; the humane are not anxious; the brave are not afraid.
  12. To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
  13. Courage is the self-affirmation of being in spite of the fact of nonbeing.