The bravery founded on hope of recompense, fear of punishment, experience of success, on rage, or on ignorance of danger, is but common bravery, and does not deserve the name. True bravery proposes a just end; measures the dangers, and meets the result with calmness and unyielding decision.
~ Francois de la Noue
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Begin deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu
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A great deal of talent is lost in this world for the want of a little courage.
~ Sydney Smith
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Physical courage which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way, and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council. But to constitute a great man both are necessary.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
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Courage exists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.
~ Jean Paul
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It’s great to live a life of courage and compassion… but all the courage and compassion in the world doesn’t make any of it any easier. All it can do is hopefully make it more meaningful, somehow.
~ Hugh MacLeod from, https://www.gapingvoid.com/blog/2022/07/12/the-one-choice-all-fulfilled-people-make/
I’d go further: The more courage and compassion I muster, the harder it gets. Compassion gives me a big “why” that burns inside, driving me to the next, harder challenge. Courage begets more courage; With each win won through courage, it becomes easier to again deploy courage intentionally. It seems that courage and compassion lead to the tackling of increasing great and difficult challenges. Meaning is great, but I haven’t yet figured out how to use any of it to pay the proverbial rent.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
~ Frederick Douglass
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~ Dale Carnegie
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
~ Erica Jong
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
~ Kahlil Gibran
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Before you embark on any path ask the question, does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it and then you must choose another path. The trouble is that nobody asks the question. And when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart the path is ready to kill him.
~ Carlos Castaneda
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Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
~ Amelia Earhart
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
~ Anais Nin
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Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon
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Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absense of fear.
~ Mark Twain
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