From Seneca: “Fire tests gold; misfortune tests brave men.”
Tag Archives: courage
Quote of the day 01/20/26
From Seneca: “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
Quote of the day 01/13/26
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.”
Quote of the day 12/21/25
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.”
Quote of the day 12/14/25
From William James: “Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.”
Quote of the day 11/10/25
From Søren Kierkegaard: “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
Quote of the day 08/14/25
From E.E. Cummings: “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
Quote of the day 10/16/24
From Immanuel Kant: “Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.”
Quote of the day 09/18/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, butfor the heart to conquer it.”
Quote of the day 04/05/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.”
