more courage QUOTES

1 " I don’t wish for more time. I wish for more courage to live freely right now. "

2 " Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. "

― Umberto Eco , The Name of the Rose

3 " It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher. "

― E.L. Konigsburg , Talk, Talk : A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups

4 " The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be cured. And by the way, that is very important. Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices. When a neurotic who has a pathological horror of cats forces himself to pick up a cat for some good reason, it is quite possible that in God's eyes he has shown more courage than a healthy man may have shown in winning the V.C. When a man who has been perverted from his youth and taught that cruelty is the right thing does dome tiny little kindness, or refrains from some cruelty he might have committed, and thereby, perhaps, risks being sneered at by his companions, he may, in God's eyes, be doing more than you and I would do if we gave up life itself for a friend.

It is as well to put this the other way round. Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends. Can we be quite certain how we should have behaved if we had been saddled with the psychological outfit, and then with the bad upbringing, and then with the power, say, of Himmler? That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it. Most of the man's psychological makeup is probably due to his body: when his body dies all that will fall off him, and the real central man, the thing that chose, that made the best or worst out of this material, will stand naked. All sorts of nice things which we thought our own, but which were really due to a good digestion, will fall off some of us: all sorts of nasty things which were due to complexes or bad health will fall off others. We shall then, for the first time, see every one as he really was. There will be surprises. "

― C.S. Lewis , Mere Christianity

5 " I had been much more in love with my wife than she with me, that was all. Somehow, you were supposed to be ashamed of this, as though love were a perpetual jostling for the roles of pursuer and pursued. As if it didn’t take more courage to admit that someone held your hopes of happiness in their hands. As if it were a choice. "

― Amanda Craig , In a Dark Wood

6 " It requires more courage to back down compared to moving forward. "

7 " Gómez had suggested I steal a fish to achieve more courage and purpose. I regarded this task as an anthropological experiment, though it crossed a border into something approaching magic, or perhaps magical thinking. When I googled how to gut a fish, there were over 9 million results. "

― Deborah Levy , Hot Milk

8 " Flying demanded more courage and faith than I actually possessed, and it wanted my best, my whole self. I would have to work very hard to be any good at it at all, and be more than a little mad to be great, to give my life over to it. But that's just what I meant to do. "

― Paula McLain , Circling the Sun

9 " The less courage you have, the more dwarf you shall be; the more courage you have, the more giant you shall be! "

― Mehmet Murat ildan

10 " When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey. "

― Karen Kimsey-House , Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to Lead

11 " Maybe sometimes it takes more courage not to fight.

-Makino "

― Eiichiro Oda

12 " Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there;
She gives the best light to his sphere;
Or each is both, and all, and so
They unto one another nothing owe;
And yet they do, but are
So just and rich in that coin which they pay,
That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay;
Neither desires to be spared nor to spare.
They quickly pay their debt, and then
Take no acquittances, but pay again;
They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall
No such occasion to be liberal.
More truth, more courage in these two do shine,
Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine. "

― John Donne , The Complete English Poems

13 " But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. "

― Albert Camus

14 " Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them. "

― Ann Aguirre , Horde (Razorland, #3)

15 " Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed a flood of light upon the great problems of plant and animal life.These things had been guessed, prophesied, asserted, hinted by many others, but Darwin, with infinite patience, with perfect care and candor, found the facts, fulfilled the prophecies, and demonstrated the truth of the guesses, hints and assertions. He was, in my judgment, the keenest observer, the best judge of the meaning and value of a fact, the greatest Naturalist the world has produced.The theological view began to look small and mean.Spencer gave his theory of evolution and sustained it by countless facts. He stood at a great height, and with the eyes of a philosopher, a profound thinker, surveyed the world. He has influenced the thought of the wisest.Theology looked more absurd than ever.Huxley entered the lists for Darwin. No man ever had a sharper sword -- a better shield. He challenged the world. The great theologians and the small scientists -- those who had more courage than sense, accepted the challenge. Their poor bodies were carried away by their friends.Huxley had intelligence, industry, genius, and the courage to express his thought. He was absolutely loyal to what he thought was truth. Without prejudice and without fear, he followed the footsteps of life from the lowest to the highest forms.Theology looked smaller still.Haeckel began at the simplest cell, went from change to change -- from form to form -- followed the line of development, the path of life, until he reached the human race. It was all natural. There had been no interference from without.I read the works of these great men -- of many others – and became convinced that they were right, and that all the theologians -- all the believers in " special creation" were absolutely wrong.The Garden of Eden faded away, Adam and Eve fell back to dust, the snake crawled into the grass, and Jehovah became a miserable myth. "

16 " Perhaps people hate because it's more difficult to love. It also takes more courage to do the latter. "

― Primadonna Angela

17 " It takes more courage to smile than to frown. So meet the world with a smile and the courageous will smile back. "

18 " It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield "

― W.B. Yeats

19 " It will always take a good deal more courage to do something foolishly dangerous, when it is planned, than when it happens by surprise. "

― Steven J. Carroll , Worlds Unending (The Histories of Earth, #4)

20 " Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver. "

― E.L. Konigsburg

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