7 quotes
Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.
The Courage to Create (1975)
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom.
Man’s Search for Himself (1953)
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values.
The Courage to Create (1975)
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
The Courage to Create (1975)
Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
Man’s Search for Himself (1953)
Physical courage in whatever scene … seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.
Power and Innocence (1972)
In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of her morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non.
Man’s Search for Himself (1953)