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Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave QUOTES

Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave QUOTES

1 " One man with courage makes a majority. "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

2 " One way to remember who you are,” he said, “is to remember who your heroes are. "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

3 " It doesn’t matter who or how many come at you, you have to be you. Confidently. Authentically. Bravely. "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

4 " To each,” Winston Churchill would say, “there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour. "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

5 " The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life,” Joan Didion observed, “is the source from which self-respect springs. "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

6 " Man is pushed by drives. But he is pulled by values. Viktor Frankl "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

7 " Courage is honest commitment to noble ideals. The opposite of courage is not, as some argue, being afraid. It’s apathy. It’s disenchantment. It’s despair. It’s throwing up your hands and saying, “What’s the point anyway? "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

8 " It has been said that a Stoic is someone who says “Fuck you” to fate. That’s right. They resist. They fight. They will not be made to do the wrong thing. Especially under pressure. "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

9 " Longfellow wrote: Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

10 " For Hercules, the choice was between vice and virtue, the easy way and the hard way, the well-trod path and the road less traveled. We all face this choice. "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

11 " That’s what de Gaulle realized about Hitler. That his force was entirely dependent on the “cowardice of others.” No one was willing to call the bully a bully. No one in Germany was willing to see that the emperor had no clothes, and was in fact a raving, murderous lunatic. They definitely weren’t willing to say so. Because no one said anything, no one did anything except tell Hitler what he wanted to hear. And so they all became complicit. Still, "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

12 " It is almost offensively clichéd now to use the phrase “Freedom isn’t free.” Nonetheless, it is true. "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

13 " There is nothing worth doing that is not scary. There is no one who has achieved greatness without wrestling with their own doubts, anxieties, limitations, and demons. "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

14 " Courage has clear rewards. One takes a risk because they hope for a payoff—something others are afraid to reach for. But what about sacrificing oneself? Or sacrificing deeply for something? There’s courage and then there is heroism, the highest form of courage. The kind embodied in those who are willing to give, perhaps give everything, for someone else. "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

15 " In the world’s broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife! —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

16 " There is no deed in this life so impossible that you cannot do it. Your whole life should be lived as a heroic deed. "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

17 " The belief that an individual can make a difference is the first step. The next is understanding that you can be that person. "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

18 " Aristotle described virtue as a kind of craft, something to pursue just as one pursues the mastery of any profession or skill. “We become builders by building and we become harpists by playing the harp,” he writes. “Similarly, then, we become just by doing just actions, temperate by doing temperate actions, brave by doing brave actions. "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

19 " There is no deed in this life so impossible that you cannot do it. Your whole life should be lived as a heroic deed. Leo Tolstoy "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

20 " People who did what needed to be done. People who said, “If not me, then who? "

― Ryan Holiday , Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave