Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Tags: happiness USA liberty independence courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: war courage violence warrior energy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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… More about this quote Tags: life change courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. —Hermann Hesse More about this quote Tags: people perception courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. —August Strindberg More about this quote Tags: people dogs courage violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: time courage moments Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. —Harold Wilson More about this quote Tags: fear courage concealment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Great fear is concealed under daring. —Lucan More about this quote Tags: fear courage daring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: questions knowledge courage earth answers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Because of a great love, one is courageous. —Laozi More about this quote Tags: love courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: fear potential knowledge depression fearlessness courage transcending Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: death courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: experience popularity courage bravery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence and back into bondage. —Fraser Tyler More about this quote Tags: history apathy progress nations world faith liberty courage wealth slavery abundance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: strength courage bravery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email