"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."
"Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell."
52 likes
Source: Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice. Book by Napoleon Hill, p. 104, 1991.
About the author
Same author
More quotes by Rollo May
"Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."
"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves."
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself."
"To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before"
"Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others."