There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.
You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.
Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
We ought to face our destiny with courage.
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Effort + the courage to show up = enough.
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
All bravery stands upon comparisons.
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
My mother found a way out of a little one-bedroom apartment in Athens, Greece to bring Arianna to Cambridge to study economics and bring me to the Royal Academy in London with very few financial resources and no connections. She didn't know anybody in England, but she found a way. Her love for her daughters and seeing what they could be, motivated her and gave her the chutzpah, the courage, to break down barriers. When you have the motivation of love, you will find the way.
Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener. . . . She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.
Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.
My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in your own little world, that will be the death of your theory. On the other hand, many of the criticisms you receive are pointless and simply reflect the view that anything new is bad. In such a delicate situation it is crucial to tread gingerly and be careful to appreciate the difference between pertinent and idiotic comments.
Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.
Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.
That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.