Quotes & Sayings About Courage Aristotle

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage. — Aristotle.

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible. — Jonathan V. Last

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times. — Aristotle.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others. — Aristotle.

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended. — Aristotle.

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible. — Aristotle.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle.

The man who shuns and fears everything and stands up to nothing becomes a coward; the man who is afraid of nothing at all, but marches up to every danger becomes foolhardy. Similarly the man who indulges in pleasure and refrains from none becomes licentious (akolastos); but if a man behaves like a boor (agroikos) and turns his back on every pleasure, he is a case of insensibility. Thus temperance and courage are destroyed by excess and deficiency and preserved by the mean. — Aristotle.

Listen, Kafka. What you're experiencing now is the motif of many Greek tragedies. Man doesn't choose fate. Fate chooses man. That's the basic worldview of Greek drama. And the sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. Sophocles' Oedipus Rex being a great example. Oedipus is drawn into tragedy not because of laziness or stupidity, but because of his courage and honesty. So an inevitable irony results. — Haruki Murakami

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward. — Aristotle.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage. — Aristotle.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century - perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character, of colossal knowledge and high adventurousness, of instinctive honesty and indomitable courage which appears in mankind only once in a blue moon. There have been far greater scientists, even in England, but there has never been a scientist who was a greater man. — H.L. Mencken

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites. — Aristotle.