courage – kevinwarstadt.com

Quote of the day 04/10/26

From William Faulkner: “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

From Mark Twain: “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”

From Marcus Aurelius: “The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.”

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.”