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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.

— Rollo May The Courage to Create (1975)

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Man’s Search for Himself (1953)

The daimonic needs to be directed and channeled. Here is where human consciousness becomes so important.

Love and Will (1969)

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967)

Now it is no longer a matter of deciding what to do, but of deciding how to decide.

Love and Will (1969)

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Love and Will (1969)

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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