Quotes on courage

Courage versus fear

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of

failure.

Sven Goran Eriksson

The key to change... is to let go of fear.
--Rosanne Cash
 Comfort zone?
If we're growing, we're always going to be out
of our comfort zone.
John Maxwell
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what
ships are for.
--William Shedd
They can't hurt you unless you let them.
If you wait to do everything until you're sure
it's right, you'll probably never do much of
anything.
--Win Borden
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes
courage is the quiet voice at the end of the
day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.
--Mary Anne Radmacher
Whatever course you decide upon, there is
always someone to tell you that you are
wrong. There are always difficulties arising
which tempt you to believe that your critics
are right. To map out a course of action and
follow it to an end requires courage.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -
not absence of fear
--Mark Twain
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and
listen.
--Winston Churchill
Courage is going from failure to failure without
losing enthusiasm.
--Winston Churchill
Without courage all virtues lose their
meaning.
--Winston Churchill
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but
the form of every virtue at the testing point.
--C.S. Lewis
Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid
and act anyway.
--Dr. Robert Anthony
Courage is the art of being the only one who
knows you're scared to death.
--Earl Wilson
The opposite of courage in our society is not
cowardice, it is conformity.
-- Rollo May
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and
confidence.
- Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these
seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions,
habit, reason, passion, desire.
- Aristotle
You will never do anything in this world
without courage. It is the greatest quality of
the mind next to honor.
--Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses
a friend loses more; but he who loses his
courage loses all.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Being deeply loved by someone gives you
strength, while loving someone deeply gives
you courage.
--Lao Tzu
What is your guiding star?
Purpose of ethics?
For people?
Media?
You?
Yourself?
 Passion versus position
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision
comes from passion, not position.
--John Maxwell
Teleological Deontological

Ethics based on purpose Ethics based on duty

(tele= far or purpose)

 Footnote:

Etymologically: telescope = television

Both mean far vision
Do you have a guiding star that you are willing
to suffer for?
Responsibility
 Responsible towards whom?
God
History
People
Conscience
Self-confidence
If you have a clear guiding principle in your life,
then you have self confidence

Self-confidence does not mean forcing/imposing

on subordinates, but it means being convinced
and aware of your path.
Plato
Decoding Complexities
 The Republic of Plato
Who should rule the society?
If ---- rule(s) then the government is a(n) ----.
priests: theocracy
professionals: technocracy
a few elites: oligarchy
a dictator: autocracy
people: democracy
the nobles: aristocracy
understanding people: epistemocracy
an ethnic group: ethnocracy
no one: anarchy
 Corporatocracy
Kratocracy
Demarchy/ lottocracy
Exilarchy
Gerontocracy
Kleptocracy
Meritocracy
Geniocracy
For Plato, the ruler should be a PHILOSOPHER
 There is no word for a society ruled by
philosophers, but we simply refer to such a
governance as Platonic rule.
For Plato, the ruler should be a PHILOSOPHER

Because a Philosopher can interpret FORMS

 The Allegory of the Cave
By Plato
Other names:
The Simile of the Cave
Myth of the Cave
Metaphor of the Cave
The Cave Analogy
Plato's Cave
The Parable of the Cave
 The Allegory of the Cave
Plato imagines a group of people who have lived
chained in a cave all of their lives, facing the inner
walls of the cave.
The prisoners watch shadows projected on the wall by
things passing behind them but in front of a fire. The
shadows seem to be real and not just shadows.
The philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the
cave and comes to distinguish between the shadow
and reality
 The Allegory of the Cave
The Allegory of the Cave is related to Platos theory of
Forms
 Theory of Forms
A philosopher is someone who interprets forms

However, if is not just visual forms that we are

referring to!
 Theory of Forms
Forms are things that exist in another reality
from which things that we see around come to
be.
 In a similar manner Plato distinguishes
between our own reality (material forms) and
the more real reality (non-material Forms;
ideas).
Forms (ideas)

forms (material)
 Theory of Forms
Forms are things that exist in another dimension
or reality from which things that we see
around come to be.
Platos cave as an example
 What can we learn from Plato?
Therefore the leader (ruler) is the philosopher.

His ethics shows not just in seeing more than

one perspective, but also in taking the pain to
explain each of the perspectives (rather than
hiding the perspective that does not match his
interests)
Values in Ethics
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics
--Einstein

Ethics is more
absolute than
physics!
Two things are infinite: the universe and
human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the
universe.
Absolute versus Relative
Ethics
Sources of Principled-Leadership
(or ethical leadership)
Relativity in Ethics
ethics and culture
 Sources of Principled Leadership
1. Observation, particularly of a mentor
2. Community
3. Parents
4. Education
5. Early work jobs
Mentor