courage – kevinwarstadt.com

Quote of the day 02/24/26

From Michel de Montaigne: “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”

From Aristotle: “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

From Seneca: “Fire tests gold; misfortune tests brave men.”

From Seneca: “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.”

From St. John of the Cross: “In order to arrive at what you do not know, you must go by a way which you do not know.”

From William James: “Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.”

From Søren Kierkegaard: “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”

From E.E. Cummings: “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

From Immanuel Kant: “Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.”