Courage

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

—Louis D. Brandeis

The warrior energy of men now has to be used paradoxically to destroy the warrior psyche and the politics of warfare. It will require more courage and aggression than we’ve ever seen on the battlefield.

—Sam Keen

Life isn’t smooth, but it’s the bumps that help us find out who we are. And it’s handling the bumps that gives us courage.

—Sarah Morgan in Once a Ferrara Wife…

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

—Hermann Hesse

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

—August Strindberg

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

—Harold Wilson

Great fear is concealed under daring.

—Lucan

If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

—Laozi

Acknowledging fear is not a cause for depression or discouragement. Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear; but going beyond fear.

—Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

—Albert Camus

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.

—Clarence Darrow

Ideally, one should have a great deal of courage and strength, but not boast or make a big show of it. Then, in times of need, one should rise to the occasion and fight bravely for what is right.

—14th Dalai Lama