Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
All happiness depends on courage and work.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
For I will not let fear swallow My breath, my dreams, and my hopes! My hidden courage will saw off your fist.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Freedom is the sure possession of those who have the courage to defend it.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
“The example could encourage others who only fear to start.
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.
“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.”
Ιt takes courage to raise children.
I love songs that talk about beauty, courage and humanity.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.