Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Courage, strength and value of a person are measured by the ability to face up difficulties.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Coraggio, forza e valore di una persona si misurano dalla capacità di affrontare le difficoltà.
Source: prevale.net
“Shameful it is to say, yet the common herd, if only we admit the truth, value friendships by their profit.”
Turpe quidem dictu, sed, si modo vera fatemur,
vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.
Ovid book Epistulae ex Ponto
II, iii, 7-8; translation by Arthur Leslie Wheeler
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters From the Black Sea)
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Speech in http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020917-7.html Nashville, Tennessee, (September 17, 2002), in which the president confused a centuries-old proverb ("Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.") <br class="br">2000s, 2002
Haidakhan Babaji teacher in northern India
Courage and alertness
Source: The Teachings of Babaji, 5 July 1983.
“Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards …”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Letter to Reverend William Henry Channing http://web.csustan.edu:80/english/reuben/pal/chap4/channing_henry.html (21 February 1841) quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 112.
Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 13
Context: Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
“My feelings for you shame me into silence.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: Solipsist
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
