Courage To Leave Quotes

• Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Courage, Philosophical

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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  You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

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• If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

  Winston Churchill

  Ocean, Want, Firsts

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• Sometimes it take courage to leave.

  Ann Rinaldi

  Sometimes

  Ann Rinaldi (2002). “The Staircase”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

  Luis Bunuel

  Destiny, Curiosity, Fundamentals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Journey, Wind, Important

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• Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Home, Soul, Identity

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.75, Faber & Faber

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• If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along which we have thought until now and as the first step begin to doubt everything that we previously accepted as correct and true. Can we still afford to close our eyes and stop up our ears because new ideas are supposed to be heretical and absurd?

  Erich von Däniken

  Eye, Ideas, Doubt

  Erich von Däniken (1969). “Chariots of the Gods?: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past”

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• Sometimes it takes courage to leave.

  Ann Rinaldi

  Sometimes

  Ann Rinaldi (2002). “The Staircase”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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