Courage is not the absence of ...

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
 Rollo May

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man, but soon or late the one who wins is the one who thinks he can!”
 Walter D. Wintle

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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
 Rollo May
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
 Rollo May
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
 Rollo May
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
 Rollo May
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
 Rollo May