Quotes About Courage

He was training people to become "sacred warriors"—not so that they could do battle with others but so that they could develop the kind of courage one needs to be kind and happy and radically alive in the midst of the world.

There is no dry land, he said; there is only fearlessness, which is to be found in the heart. This is the path to freedom. At

That is the first tip of fearlessness, and the first sign of real warriorship.

Discovering fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart. I

You may hold my tears and live as you did before, trusting your soul to no one. Or you may release my tears and accept what comes.

Then, too, the Ju/wa men had an inherent, almost natural bravery that everyone took entirely for granted. They hunted the world's most dangerous game with quarter-ounce arrows, they stood off lions and dealt with strangers, all without a shred of the bravado or machismo that so characterizes the men of other societies, including ours. The Ju/wa men simply did what men do without making anything of it, and didn't even think of themselves as brave.

Don't run away from your troubles, because they'll sure as hell run faster.

It was tempting to believe that if you made yourself small and light, beneath notice, you might be allowed to persist nearly anywhere. But meek women were tossed out and forgotten: that was something she had learned from Bertha Truitt herself. What women needed to do was take up space. Become unbudgeable.

As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level.

Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

We'll be all right. Somehow, we will. Trust it is the truth.

It's a dangerous thing to want everyone's approval, Gabriella. You must be willing to stand firm and take the risk of being misunderstood. We must find our approval at the feet of our Master.

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.

INSTEAD OF LIVING CAUTIOUSLY AS IF DEATH IS THE ENEMY … I decided to live life fully and know that heaven is my friend.

Better to be like the falcon. Alone. Dependent on nothing but the air beneath her wings. At least for the falcon, the air had more substance than her foolish dreams of love.

Elizabeth Rudnick

sometimes, you have to break your own heart.

My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to believe in me.

Something in me, in my bruised heart, wakes up, and even though I'm terrified, I don't push the feeling away.

And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it's not that easy.

Everyone gets scared," like it's some big profound statement?

I broke my own heart once. I gave it to someone who I knew didn't want it, and had to take it back when he refused to hold it.