Courage Quotes

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness - was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself.

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honor to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day.

To this end we now need many preparatory courageous human beings who cannot very well leap out of nothing - any more than out of the sand and slime of present-day civilization and metropolitanism: human beings who know how to be silent, lonely, resolute, and content and constant in invisible activities.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

The extraordinary courage and wisdom of Kant and Schopenhauer have succeeded in gaining the most difficult victory, the victory over the optimism concealed in the essence of logic-an optimism that is the basis of our culture.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.