The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
Discover Your Inner Courage: Quotes to Empower You - page 16
The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.
Martha Beck
“You are a warrior! Built to endure. Able to conquer. Nothing can hold you down.”
Beatrice Garrett
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Joyce Brothers
my
mother hoped that
i would die etcetera
bravely of course my father used
to become hoarse talking about how it was
a privilege and if only he
could
e. e. cummings
“A fool is ‘happy’ when his cravings are satisfied. A warrior is happy without reason. That’s what makes happiness the ultimate discipline”
Dan Millman
Real life is developed from within. Real living means that the soul expresses itself through all one's thoughts, words and actions. A person becomes fearless once he understands the nature of the imperishable soul.
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.
Isaac Barrow
My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.
Alan Moore
Truly brave people accept that they may not see victory in their own lifetime. You just keep at it for the sake of those who come after you. You might not win but you stand a better chance by doing something.
Tim Winton
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“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
Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.
William Joyce
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.
Frederick Franck
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Rollo May