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