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“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.”

Self Courage Risk Protest Humiliation Readiness

Book:A Sea Change

Source: A Sea Change

“When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.”

Source: The Positive Principle Today

“The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.”

Men Life Self Joy Effort Courage Sacrifice He Man Duty Spring Men And Women Ideals Labor Strive Philanthropy Self Sacrifice

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“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.”

Self Common Courage Risk Danger Higher Highest Claims Worthy Resistance Aggression Limbs Invasion Defence Maintenance Repelling

Book:The Study of Sociology

Source: The Study of Sociology

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

“The real gift of love is self disclosure.”

Real Self Love Is Courage Disclosure Gift Of Love Self Disclosure

Author:John Powell

“Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”

Humans Doe Soul Self Strong Ability Courage Intellectual Forgiving Dare Revenge Setting Settings Injury Modest Distrust Human Soul Admirable Sparkle Meekness

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.”

Doe Ends Self Courage Doubt Self-doubt

Author:Mason Cooley

“This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own spiritual yearnings in the biggest possible context, in such a way that is going to compel us to finally transcend our self-concern. We need to find the heart to come together in such a way that will enable us to face the challenges before us. And to do this, we need a new spirituality. We need a new enlightenment.”

Way Needs Firsts Heart Self Together Faces Spiritual Spirituality Challenges Courage Century Enlightenment Concern Twenties Yearning

Author:Andrew Cohen

“There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.”

Men Stills Self Character Lost Courage Self Esteem Kings Respect Self Confidence Self Respect No Failure

Book:The Optimistic Life

Source: The Optimistic Life

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”

Source: The Essential Tillich

“It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.”

Self Pain Lasts Courage Our Lives Awareness Discovery Endure Self Discovery Dull Unconsciousness Meaningful Work

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”

“When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.”

People Way Want Love Feels Persons Self Feelings Age Steps Courage Risk Stage Honest Fronts Promise Offers Discovery Brave Self Discovery Being Honest Intimate Spite True Feelings

Author:Michael Jackson

“It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.”

Men Doe Self Courage Despair Oneself Self Confidence Surrender Compassionate Ingenious

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)”

Important Self Courage Battle

Book:IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS

Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS

“The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”

Men Self Eye Courage Fellows Average Humble Self Confidence Certainty Warrior Infinity Fellow Man Hooked Humbleness Average Man Don Juan Juan

Book:Tales of Power

Source: Tales of Power

“The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.”

Self Courage Keys Fortune Rage Accents Retorts

Book:Troilus and Cressida

Source: Troilus and Cressida

“Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.”

“If you ask him: "What is silence?" he will answer, "It is the Great Mystery! The holy silence is His voice!" If you ask: "What are the fruits of silence?" he will say: "They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity, and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character."”

Ifs Self Character Asks Voice Answers Silence Courage Mystery Holy Dignity Fruit Endurance Reverence Self Control Silence Is Cornerstones True Courage

Book:The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World

Source: The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World

“Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.”

May Self Fear Differences Levels Courage Self Esteem Anxiety Lows Weakness Esteem Dwelling Low Self Esteem Good Advice High Level Handicaps

Author:Alan Loy McGinnis

“Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.”

Men Self Shows Courage Despair Command Exceptional Discouragement

Book:David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events

Source: David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events

“I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.”

Knows Believe Self Helping Problem Found Belief Acting Courage Integrity Meetings Self Respect Problem Solving Decency

Book:Selected letters of William Faulkner

Source: Selected letters of William Faulkner

“As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.”

“Valor consists in the power of self recovery.”

Self Power Courage Recovery Valor

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

Inspirational Persons Real Self Motivational Grows Growth Courage Growing Up Successful Growing Identity Personality Becoming Grew Up Personal Growth Individuality Karma Being Yourself Birthday Motivational Sports Courageous About Yourself Be You Graduates Just Being Graduation Teenage Be True To Yourself True To Yourself Have Courage Successful Business Be Courageous Being Myself Be Who You Are Fear And Courage Fear Courage Funny Graduation Courage Strength Feeling Sorry Just Being You High School Graduation Inspirations Being Yourself Realness Inspirational Graduation Inspirational Courage Funny Commencement Inspirational High School Graduation Being A Teenager Graduating High School Great Graduation School Graduation Finishing School Good High School Graduation Cool Graduation Graduation Card Short Courage Grace Under Pressure Funny Courage Graduating High School Seniors Becoming Yourself High School Graduation Congratulations Strength And Life Family Growing Up Where You Grew Up Writing For Yourself

Author:e. e. cummings

“The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.”

Trying Real Self Courage Honest Tests Acid

Author:Andrew Jenson

“The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without . . . the average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.”

“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!”

Ifs Knows Men Mind Self Use Lying Causes Understanding Courage Enlightenment Dare Guidance Inability Emergence Indecision Lack Of Understanding

Author:Immanuel Kant

“It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as human beings we need to pay attention to our inner values. Sometimes people think compassion is only of help to others, while we get no benefit. This is a mistake. When you concern yourself with others, you naturally develop a sense of self-confidence . To help others takes courage and inner strength.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.”

Source: The Uprising Experience: A Personal Guide for a Revolution of the Soul, Promise Keepers Edition

“The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.”

Self Dies Courage Ought Essentials Defence Ahimsa Inverse Self Defence

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living.”

“Our scars define us. They tell a story of courage and survival. They tell of who we are at our deepest being, of the challenges we've faced and overcome.”

Self Courage Survival Challenge Scars Lynette Noni The Prison Healer The Gilded Cage

Book:The Gilded Cage

Source: The Gilded Cage

“Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Just encourage and include each other, don’t ostracize the gender in front of you.”

Inspirational Self Courage Empowerment Gender Equality Include

Author:Emma Watson