Rollo May Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Reality, Like Love

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

• The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

  Rollo May

  Inspiration, Heart, Blood

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

• In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Maturity, Simple

  "Man's Search for Himself" by Rollo May, (p.191), 1953.

• Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Moving, Long

  Rollo May Ph.D. (1953). “Man's Search for Himself”

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