Quotes About Courage

My anger frightened me more than my fear once had.

A book must start somewhere. One brave letter must volunteer to go first, laying itself on the line in an act of faith, from which a word takes heart and follows, drawing a sentence into its wake. From there, a paragraph amasses, and soon a page, and the book is on its way, finding a voice, calling itself into being. A book must start somewhere, and this one starts here.

You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing, not a bad thing.

I don't mind the risk, because the risk makes it more interesting

Montaigne wrote that death itself is nothing. It is only the fear of death that makes death seem important.

It's okay to have impossible goals, because if you follow your unreachable star no matter how hopeless or far, your heart will be peaceful when you're dead, even though you might be scorned and covered with scars like I am while you're still alive.

it wouldn't matter if I bumped and bounced like a cabbage all the way down until I hit bottom and then rolled out to sea, because at least I'd be safe and dead.

You are who you are Benny Oh. Just don't let anyone tell you that's a problem.

I'd rather be a fool than hard-hearted.

The best antidote for sadness, I have always believed, is tackling something that you don't know how to do.

Hope can't hurt

Reminded us how exciting it was to abandon security and run toward the life that is waiting.

When something frightens me, it is definitely worth doing.

If you can watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools, or make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss, you'll be a man.

To be able to choose your own pain - it's a little scary, she thought, but it's wonderful, too.

Poder elegir tu propio dolor; da un poco de miedo, pensó, pero también es maravilloso.

I've wondered about that before, why is it that so much Korean food is spicy? Korea has an incredibly rich culture, but history has been cruel to the people ... But no matter how bad your situation is, you need to eat. And spicy food is a powerful ally when your reserves of courage and energy are low because it stimulates your appetite.

El que no tiembla ante una acción, menos se espanta por palabras.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

This is the way a person always gains courage; when he fears a greater danger, he always has the courage to face a lesser one; when he is exceedingly afraid of one danger, it is as if the others did not exist at all.