Emil Cioran Quotes

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

Emil Cioran

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• I embraced everything that I thought would hold me back from pursuing my dreams and used my insecurities to give me the courage to inspire and advocate for others who possessed many of the same insecurities I had.

  

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• Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

  

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• I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

  

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• You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
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• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
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• At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.

  

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• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

  

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• The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

  

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• Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

  

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• I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table.

  

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• Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

  

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• We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

  

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• I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

  

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• In the end, young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

  

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• Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

  

  Confucius
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• Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been so many movements and ideas struggling to attract our attention. Added to this, the Western world is swamped by material goods and the Western mind is dominated by the goal of material success. In all this confusion, Zen stands out as a voice of sanity. It represents a different way of seeing the world, one based upon the rediscovery of who we really are and have always been, through revealing to us our true nature.

  

  David Fontana
  • Different
  • Struggle
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• If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Courage
  • Shame
  • Utter