Courage Quotes

"Moral growth requires the courage to admit we were wrong about something we believed."

"The person of conscience is willing to be unpopular for the sake of principle."

"A child who feels secure explores the world with greater confidence."

"Attachment security provides the courage to face the unknown."

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."

"Man can endure almost any suffering if he can find a meaning in it."

"Even if we are unable to change an unfavorable situation, we can still choose our attitude toward it."

"What matters most is not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens."

"Every day, we make choices about the kind of person we will be."

"No circumstance is so difficult that we cannot choose our attitude toward it."

"Our response to life is more important than what life presents to us."

"Freedom and responsibility go together—we cannot have one without the other."

"The more I trust myself and others, the less fear governs my life."

"The capacity to be present with suffering—one's own and another's—is a form of courage."

"The courage to be different is the beginning of real freedom."

"The person who lives authentically may not always be comfortable, but they are truly alive."

"Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety and risk and growth."

"The fundamental lesson we must learn as human beings is that we are not victims of life."

"The capacity to take responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."

"We become moral agents not through passive acceptance of rules, but through active reasoning about them."

"Moral maturity is achieved when we can act justly even when it costs us personally."

"The person who has achieved moral maturity acts from principle and responsibility, not from fear."

"Heroism is just ordinary people doing extraordinary things under extraordinary circumstances."

"Courage is feeling the fear and acting anyway."

"A person may know the right thing to do but still not do it when authority commands otherwise."

"The experiment demonstrates the fragility of individual moral resistance."

"We must create counter-measures against destructive obedience."

"Personal morality is tested by institutional demands."

"We must remain vigilant against the erosion of personal conscience."

"The greatest barrier to personal growth is the fear of being rejected for who we truly are."