Book Titles

Courage is Calling
Fortune Favors the Brave

By Ryan Holiday

Year Published: 2021
ISBN-13: 978-0-593-19167-5
Categories: Bravery, Courage, Cowardice

182 Quotes Found

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Courage is Calling:

Life is risky. No amount of corporate ass-covering will ever change that.

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Courage is Calling:

No amount of hiding will actually protect you from scary things.

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Courage is Calling:

All certainty is uncertain. You’re not safe. You never will be. No one is.

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Courage is Calling:

In putting safety above everything, we actually put ourselves in danger. Of being forgotten. Of never coming close. Of being complicit.

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Courage is Calling:

No rule is perfect, but this one works: Our fears point us, like a self-indicting arrow, in the direction of the right thing to do.

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Courage is Calling:

Fear votes for hesitation, it always has a reason for not doing and so it rarely does anything.

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Courage is Calling:

If we don’t find ourselves experiencing this hesitation every so often, we should know that we are not pushing ourselves hard enough.

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Courage is Calling:

They say not to take counsel of your fears, but perhaps that’s exactly what we should do. We should listen closely and then do the opposite.

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Courage is Calling:

…doing the thing you cannot do. It is almost always the thing you should do.

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Courage is Calling:

Out of fear, we conform. Out of fear, we don’t do what’s right. We mute ourselves.

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