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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius -— and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in the lack of understanding, but in the lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Have courage to use your own understanding!

It is curious -— curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Last, but by no means least, courage -— moral courage, the courage of one’s convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage. The way in which power works is a mystery.