Quotes About Courage

It was not that he was a man of unusual courage—far from it. But he knew also that fear was not—contrary to what was often said—an instinct. It was something learned, something that accumulated in the mind through knowledge, experience and upbringing.

Anyone willing to change," Shmuel said, "will always be considered a traitor by those who cannot change and are scared to death of change and don't understand it and loathe change.

Kad su moji prijatelji otkrili da se družimo, po?eli su me nazivati izdajnikom. Nakon mnogo dana polako sam pronašao utjehu u misli da je izdajnik u o?ima fanatika onaj koji se usu?uje promijeniti. Svaka vrsta fanatizma, u svako vrijeme i na svakome mjestu, izražava gnušanje prema promjeni, strahuje od nje te sumnji?avo vidi promjenu zapravo kao izdaju koja izvire iz mra?nih i podlih pobuda.

Amos believed that people go way out of their way to avoid minor embarrassments and he decided very early on in his life that it was not worth it.

How strange that venturing away from accepted wisdom was the very path by which she found herself

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery. Those are people who crossed an ocean to come to this country.

Alcuni di noi soffrono in silenzio di un male rumoroso. E questo è quanto ho da dire sulla paura.

Resiliency, like a cartwheel, requires core strength and a disregard for gravity. Only one of which can be willed.

Amy Koppelman

But writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that impossible prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.

But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo

You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them

With hope, a mind is always free.

I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.

Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

The only thing certain in times of great uncertainty is that people will behave with great strength or weakness, and with very little else in between.

Whenever others disapprove of you, you must disregard them and be the only

We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.