Quotes About Courage

Art is a high calling – fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance to deadlines, irritation with materials or surroundings, distraction over the achievements of others – indeed as anything that keeps you from giving your work your best shot. What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit.

To require perfection is to invite paralysis.

Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be.

Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be.

Robert Burns, author of the book I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!,

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

The only time you stop run out of chances is when you stop taking them

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn't register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you're too daft to know you're mortal?

After ejection I had about thirty seconds to make my last statement in freedom before I landed in the main street of a little village right ahead. And so help me, I whispered to myself: "Five years down there, at least. I'm leaving the world of technology and entering the world of Epictetus.

The life you think you should want ... is always the life that looks safest.

If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

Freedom is not something that can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

We have knowledge. We have to do something." His first punched the hair. "Who is with me!" Noone of the moved so much as a muscle.

The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you're afraid of it.

You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.

A great many grown-up and intelligent people believe, or pretend to believe, that by behaving in a friendly and accommodating way to our attackers, we will show them that they have nothing to fear from us and so defuse their wrath. The idea that such behavior would be taken by a ruthless and implacable enemy only as a sign of weakness is as foreign to them as the idea of honor itself.

When I asked him, fifty-three years after the event, "Mr. Lucas, why did you jump on those grenades?" he did not hesitate with his answer: "To save my buddies.