Quotes About Courage

I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.

Unleash your life's potential! Don't hold back on the things you've always wanted to do. Go for it!

Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.

I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.

In order to succeed, you can't be afraid to fail. Just do it and don't let anybody tell you you can't.

All my life, following the warrior's code has taken me to places I was afraid to go. But always when I got there I was glad I made the journey.

The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.

Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.

I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.

I've met many young women who are HIV positive and courageously fighting the disease. Their determination to live a full life and see their children live in a better world is deeply inspiring to me.

I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.

Don't be afraid to hit the ball.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.