C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.”
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.”
“Courage is the most important thing...Wake up yourselves and others. Control your mind and have firm determination... Be firm like a rock, deep and serious like the sea. Think of the earth as a mother. Have great courage and patience - and be not afraid of water, fire or great storms - face them bravely. Face the fire and it will turn to ice. This requires control of mind and a firm determination.”
“Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.”
“Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.”
“Courage is the name of the topological burning up of places and of interests, inasmuch as it is subordinated to the gesture of opening oneself up to becoming 'the most exposed', which is what allows one to 'sustain oneself'. ... This is because courage, the burnt precipitation (one has 'fired one's last rounds') in the excess over the place, promptly recomposes - beyond the destruction that it is - the subjective process of justice.”
Source: Theory of the Subject
“Courage is the only asset That will conquer in the fight If you have the will to mass it On the lines of truth and right.”
Source: Whar' the Hand O' God is Seen: & Other Poems
“COURAGE is the only currency; more you spend, richer you become; by earning the RESPECT.”
Source: Guru with Guitar
“Courage is the only Magic worth having.”
“Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake.”
Source: Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
“Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”
“Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.”
Source: Last flight
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”
Source: Last flight
“Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“Courage is the rarest of all good traits”
“Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.”
Source: The Big Blue House Call
“Courage is the spirit of Christ.”
“Courage is the starting point of everything good. To love another is to automatically feed the fire of courage.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“Courage is the starting point of everything good. To love another is to automatically feed the fire of courage. We cannot be humiliated when we are fighting for someone or something we love. We will not give up when we are fighting for loved ones. As we evolve, our loved ones extend out from our family to include all of humanity. Courage and confidence will grow over the years with practice and self-awareness. We are never alone. God will help us. Such is the courage which gains respect from others. More importantly, we gain respect for ourselves.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“Courage is the strength to do what is right in the face of fear, as the anonymous philosopher tells us. I gain insight into what's right from antiracist ideas. I gain strength from fear. While many people are fearful of what could happen if they resist, I am fearful of what could happen if I don't resist, I am fearful of cowardice. Cowardice is the inability to amass the strength to do what is right in the face of fear. And racist power has been terrorizing cowardice into us for generations.”
Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes."
[The Rectorial Address Delivered by James M. Barrie at St. Andrew's University May 3, 1922, to the Red Gowns of St. Andrews, Canada, 1922]”
“Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.”
“Courage is the virtue of the free.”
Source: The Holy
“Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.”
“Courage is the will to act in the face of any fear.”
“Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.”
“Courage is to conquer yourself.”
“Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.”
Source: Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
“Courage is, to think louder when others are shouting.
Courage is, knowing victory, but also defeat.
Courage is, doing you, when others are too busy being others.”
Source: Last words for the road
“Courage is to walk hand in hand with the fear!”
“Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace." "I thought that if you had courage you always had it.". . . "Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.”
Source: Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone
“Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.”
“Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
“Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village”
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
“Courage is what love looks like when tested by the simple everyday necessities of being alive.”
Source: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.”
Source: Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
“Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.”
Source: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
“Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.”
“Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.”
“Courage is winning small battles with great honor.”
“Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other. Courage is worthy of yet higher respect when danger is faced in defence of claims common to self and others, as in resistance to invasion. Courage is worthy of the highest respect when risk to life or limb is dared in defence of others.”
Source: The Study of Sociology
“Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small.”
“Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”
“Courage is......following your conscience instead of "following the crowd." Sacrificing personal gain for the benefit of others. Speaking your mind even though others don't agree. Taking complete responsibility for your actions and your mistakes. Doing what you know is right, regardless of the consequence.”
“Courage isn’t about being fearless. If you are fearless you don’t need courage.”
“Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle.”
Source: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2
“Courage isn't an absence of fear, it's the light we find when fear is all there is.”
Source: The Devil and the Dark Water