Courage Quotes - Page 37

• Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Warrior, Hands

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• There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Change, Spiritual, Time

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Respect, Regret, Mistake

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• To win, you have to risk loss.

  Jean-Claude Killy

  Encouragement, Loss, Winning

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• There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  World, Plenty

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• A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Learning, Classroom

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

  Rumi

  Challenges, Foundation, Ease

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• If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.

  Rumi

  Real, Fire, Wish

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• It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.

  Rumi

  Kindness, Order, Safety

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• Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Children, Drinking

  "The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose". Book edited by Stephen Mitchell, 1991.

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• Revile those who flatter you.

  Rumi

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.145, Shambhala Publications

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• This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

  Rumi

  Discipline, Gold, Scum

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.

  Rumi

  Heart, Garden, Secret

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.100, Shambhala Publications

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• Much better to be crazy provided you know what/where sane is.

  Luis Villalobos

  Crazy, Individuality, Sane

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• There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Fall, Men

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• The great home of the soul is the open road.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Home, Soul, Open Road

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.156, Cambridge University Press

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• We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

  Thomas Merton

  Fall, Enlightened

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.53, Macmillan

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• It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Betrayal, Moving

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.13, Penguin

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• He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Consideration, Ends

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.165, Penguin

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• I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Time, Men

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• Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

  Robert Frost

  Knowledge, Challenges, Virtue

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• So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

  Winston Churchill

  Thinking, Long, Acting

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

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• What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

  Rollo May

  Country, Moving, Often Is

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• The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

  Rollo May

  Mean, Cat, Commitment

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When one trusts this inner universal power, it automatically draws forth the trust of the people one deals with.

  Walter Russell

  People, Deals, Draws

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