🔥 Courage

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.”

— Thucydides

#vision #danger #glory

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

— Jackie Robinson

#impact #lives #importance

“The obstacle in the path becomes the path.”

— Ryan Holiday

#obstacle #path #becoming

“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”

— Angela Duckworth

#enthusiasm #endurance #rare

“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”

— Parker Palmer

#listening #life #identity

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#course #wrong #decision

“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result but the cause of fear.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

#action #confidence #inaction

“When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.”

— Tecumseh

#morning #thanks #living

“Every one of us is a potential activist. Every act of speaking out is an act of courage.”

— Ai Weiwei

#activist #speaking-out #potential

“The soul that has no established aim loses itself; for, as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

— Michel de Montaigne

#courage #purpose #direction

“Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.”

— Warren Buffett

#risk #knowing #doing

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

— Oprah Winfrey

#asking #life #getting

“I have learned over the years that when one mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

— Rosa Parks

#determination #mind #fear

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

— Viktor Frankl

#change #situation #challenge

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

— Victor Hugo

#courage #hope #perseverance

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

— Aristotle

#courage #virtue #character

“Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.”

— King David

#courage #faith #hope

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

#cliffs #wings #jumping

“What you resist persists. What you befriend you transcend.”

— Robin Sharma

#resistance #befriending #transcendence

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

— Nelson Mandela

#fear #triumph #conquering

“I have grown most not from victories, but setbacks.”

— Serena Williams

#setbacks #growth #victories

“Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.”

— Friedrich Schiller

#courage #daring #hope

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.”

— Dale Carnegie

#courage #action #confidence

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”

— Epicurus

#courage #difficulty #glory

“Pain plus reflection equals progress.”

— Ray Dalio

#pain #reflection #progress

“In the end, just three things matter: how well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.”

— Jack Kornfield

#living #loving #letting-go

“It is the little things citizens do. That is what will make the difference.”

— Wangari Maathai

#little-things #citizens #difference

“I am not afraid. I was born to do this.”

— Joan of Arc

#born #purpose #fearless

“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#advantage #word #self-respect

“I tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is the story of many girls.”

— Malala Yousafzai

#story #unique #many

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#challenge #measure #standing

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you did not do than by the ones you did do.”

— Mark Twain

#disappointment #doing #twenty-years

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

— Henry Ford

#obstacles #goal #focus

“I warn you against shedding blood. Trust not in that, for spilt blood never sleeps.”

— Saladin

#blood #warning #trust

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

— Socrates

#finding #thinking #self

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”

— Alexander the Great

#impossible #trying #will

“Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is acting despite the fear.”

— Simon Sinek

#absence #acting #despite

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

— Seneca

#difficulties #mind #strengthening

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.”

— J.K. Rowling

#failing #caution #living

“If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, or unruly, you are on the right track.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#defiant #unruly #right-track

“The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.”

— Thucydides

#courage #freedom #happiness

“Fortune favors the brave, and abandons the cowardly.”

— Pliny the Elder

#courage #fortune #bravery

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

— Anaïs Nin

#courage #life #growth

“A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.”

— John Steinbeck

#stories #readers #versions

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

— Epictetus

#power #rest #acceptance

“If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes, then learn how to do it later.”

— Richard Branson

#opportunity #saying-yes #learning

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston Churchill

#success #failure #continuing

“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.”

— Sitting Bull

#unity #children #future

“If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask.”

— Banksy

#mask #speaking #listening

“It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.”

— Vince Lombardi

#knocked-down #getting-up #times

“Necessity does the work of courage.”

— George Eliot

#courage #necessity #strength

“An enlightened ruler does not worry about people not knowing him; he worries about not knowing people.”

— Zhuge Liang

#ruler #knowing #people

“Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights.”

— Liu Xiaobo

#expression #freedom #rights

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

— Aristotle

#first #guarantees #qualities

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”

— Alexander the Great

#lions #sheep #leadership

“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#courage #defeat #resilience

“A man who never fails is a man who never does anything.”

— Oda Nobunaga

#failing #doing #never

“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And the acceptance of negative experience is itself a positive experience.”

— Mark Manson

#positive #negative #acceptance

“I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.”

— Geronimo

#fighting #surrender #regret

“Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.”

— Reinhold Messner

#mountains #fair #dangerous

“Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?”

— Virgil

#courage #strategy #victory

“If you cannot see yourself working with someone for life, do not work with them for a day.”

— Naval Ravikant

#working #life #day

“And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

— Paulo Coelho

#universe #wanting #conspiring

“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open.”

— Jordan Peterson

#standing #responsibility #eyes

“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

— Unknown

#courage #strength #endurance

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#daily #scares #doing

“Failure is impossible.”

— Susan B. Anthony

#failure #impossible #determination

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

— Helen Keller

#suffering #overcoming #world

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

— Unknown

#courage #difficulty #opportunity

“Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”

— Charlie Munger

#simple #idea #seriously

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#leadership #wanting #art

“Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

— James Baldwin

#doing #cannot #interrupting

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

— Rumi

#wings #crawling #born

“I like criticism. It makes you strong.”

— LeBron James

#criticism #strong #liking

“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz

#death #risk #alive

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

— Eckhart Tolle

#letting-go #power #defending

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

— Unknown

#courage #resilience #inner strength

“The will to survive is the most powerful force on the planet.”

— Les Stroud

#survival #will #powerful

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

— Seneca

#daring #difficulty #causation

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”

— Phil Jackson

#team #individual #strength

“I will fight no more forever.”

— Chief Joseph

#peace #surrender #dignity

“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”

— Plutarch

#courage #resolve #justice

“Each of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done.”

— Bryan Stevenson

#worst #more #humanity

“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.”

— John F. Kennedy

#life #dramatic #triumph

“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”

— Lao Tzu

#mastering #self #power

“Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Fierce as fire. Immovable as the mountain.”

— Takeda Shingen

#swift #quiet #fierce

“It is not the will to win that matters. Everyone has that. It is the will to prepare to win that matters.”

— Bear Bryant

#preparation #winning #will

“Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honour.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#courage #honor #struggle

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it is the size of the fight in the dog.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#fight #size #determination

“I will find a way or make one.”

— Hannibal

#way #finding #making

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

— Viktor Frankl

#freedom #attitude #choice

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#boats #current #past

“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#change #step #enduring

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

— Anne Frank

#improving #world #starting

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

— Erich Fromm

#creativity #certainties #letting-go

“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”

— Deepak Chopra

#letting-go #past #finding

“One of the criticisms I have faced over the years is that I am not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow I am too empathetic. I wholly reject those criticisms.”

— Jacinda Ardern

#empathy #assertiveness #rejection

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

— Frederick Douglass

#struggle #progress #necessity

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

— Ernest Hemingway

#nobility #superior #former-self

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

— Marie Curie

#understanding #fear #knowledge

“Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”

— Unknown

#courage #progress #patience

“The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.”

— Carol Dweck

#view #adopting #leading

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

— Khalil Gibran

#suffering #souls #scars

“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors cannot say: I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”

— Harriet Tubman

#conductor #railroad #passengers

“Believe you can and you are halfway there.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

#belief #halfway #there

“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”

— Rumi

#respond #call #spirit

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”

— Stephen Covey

#strength #differences #similarities

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

— Jimi Hendrix

#love #power #peace

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

— Confucius

#mountain #stones #small

“The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.”

— Elie Wiesel

#love #hate #indifference

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you do not have the strength.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#strength #going-on #exhaustion

“To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”

— Confucius

#courage #integrity #action

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.”

— Mark Twain

#courage #fear #mastery

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

— Confucius

#glory #falling #rising

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor.”

— Nikola Tesla

#thrill #heart #inventor

“When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.”

— John Lewis

#right #fair #speaking-up

“The power plant does not have energy, it generates energy. Similarly, motivation is not something you have, it is something you generate.”

— Brendon Burchard

#energy #generating #motivation

“We are all just walking each other home.”

— Ram Dass

#walking #home #companionship

“Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#freedom #done #response

“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.”

— Chester Nimitz

#giving-up #right #hopeless

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but through persistence.”

— Buddha

#stream #rock #persistence

“Everything negative, pressure, challenges, is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

— Kobe Bryant

#negative #pressure #rising

“Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish.”

— Rigoberta Menchu

#peace #flourishing #environment

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”

— Frederick Douglass

#courage #dignity #soul

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

— Albert Einstein

#mistakes #trying #new

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

— James Clear

#goals #systems #falling

“Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.”

— Knute Rockne

#weaknesses #strong-points #building

“The battles that count are not the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself, the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us, that is where it is at.”

— Jesse Owens

#battles #invisible #inside

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

— George Orwell

#deceit #truth #revolutionary

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”

— Malala Yousafzai

#voice #silence #power

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#silence #evil #facing

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”

— Aristotle

#fears #overcoming #freedom

“Today is a good day to fight, today is a good day to die.”

— Crazy Horse

#fighting #today #acceptance

“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with.”

— Rebecca Solnit

#hope #axe #doors

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”

— Seneca

#courage #difficulty #daring

“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#antifragile #resilience #better

“When they go low, we go high.”

— Michelle Obama

#low #high #response

“The will to succeed is important, but what is more important is the will to prepare.”

— Bobby Knight

#succeeding #preparing #will

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the thing that weighs you down.”

— Toni Morrison

#flying #giving-up #weight

“What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.”

— Dean Smith

#mistake #recognize #learn

“Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”

— George S. Patton

#lead #follow #way

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”

— Sun Tzu

#victory #preparation #warriors

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”

— Vincent van Gogh

#courage #perseverance #progress

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

— Mark Twain

#resistance #mastery #absence

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

— Jim Rohn

#risk #unusual #ordinary

“You do not have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”

— Les Brown

#starting #greatness #beginning

“We will either find a way, or make one.”

— Hannibal Barca

#way #making #determination

“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.”

— Pema Chodron

#fear #truth #natural

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#power #fear #corruption

“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”

— Pericles

#freedom #possession #defending

“Experience is the teacher of all things.”

— Julius Caesar

#experience #teacher #all

“Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honor.”

— Khalil Gibran

#death #fear #honor

“Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.”

— Cleanthes

#courage #fate #willingness

“I trained four years to run nine seconds and people give up when they do not see results in two months.”

— Usain Bolt

#training #results #patience

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

#intelligent #demanding #resourceful

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#path #trail #leading

“In war there is no substitute for victory.”

— Douglas MacArthur

#war #victory #substitute

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

— Elon Musk

#failure #option #innovating

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#impediment #action #way

“Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#fearlessness #joy #freedom

“F-E-A-R has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run, or Face Everything And Rise.”

— Zig Ziglar

#fear #meanings #rising

“I have learned you are never too small to make a difference.”

— Greta Thunberg

#small #difference #learning

“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”

— Dorothy Day

#hopelessness #work #rights

“Have the courage to use your own understanding.”

— Immanuel Kant

#courage #thinking #independence

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

— Bob Dylan

#success #morning #wanting

“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.”

— Wayne Dyer

#against #for #empowerment

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself.”

— Khalil Gibran

#children #life #longing

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Helen Keller

#adventure #daring #nothing

“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”

— Harriet Tubman

#freedom #awareness #slavery

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently.”

— Maya Angelou

#virtues #important #consistency

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

— Seneca

#living #act #courage

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

— Lao Tzu

#journey #miles #step

“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”

— Baltasar Gracián

#courage #wisdom #action

“With realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world.”

— Dalai Lama

#potential #confidence #world

“I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.”

— Louise Hay

#right #place #time

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

#years #questions #answers

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.”

— Carl Jung

#vision #heart #clarity

“Faith is taking the first step even when you do not see the whole staircase.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#faith #step #staircase

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”

— Nelson Mandela

#impossible #done #seeming

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

— Bruce Lee

#prayer #strength #endurance

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”

— C.S. Lewis

#hardships #ordinary #extraordinary

“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#morality #society #children

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

#arena #critic #credit

“The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists.”

— Adam Grant

#originality #default #exploring

“You cannot get to courage without walking through vulnerability.”

— Brene Brown

#vulnerability #walking #path

“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.”

— Plato

#conquest #self #noblest

“Champions behave like champions before they are champions.”