And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect, nothing is, and no one is — and that’s OK.
Courage Quotes
The quotes worth a second look here are the quiet ones. In Dryden’s Amphitryon (1690) a character says he is “whistling to keep myself from being afraid”, which is still a fair description of how most courage works. Samuel Johnson, according to Boswell (1791), said courage is so necessary to virtue that it is respected even when it goes along with vice. Nassim Taleb, in The Bed of Procrustes (2010), has it the other way round from the usual advice: mental clarity is the child of courage, not the reverse. The psychologist Rollo May is the most-quoted modern writer here.
Two of the page’s better-known quotes are flagged as misattributed: the Churchill line about the courage to continue, which has no traceable source (see Success), and a passage on the courage of our questions that is credited to Carl Sagan.
Most quoted on courage:
I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
There is no human quality more attractive than the courage of the weak.
"That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place."
There are more strains of courage than merely facing a sword.
I always wanted to have the courage to do totally crazy, impossible, and also wrong things.
Courage, combined with stupidity, does not make successful soldiers.
Knowledge brings pain and anxiety, exhilaration and an undreamt-of courage.
Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding.
A brave mind is always impregnable. True courage is the result of reasoning.
Now, Aeneas, is the hour for courage, now for a dauntless heart!
You must be frank with the world; frankness is the child of honesty and courage.