Quotes About Courage

Tous nous serions transformés si nous avions le courage d'être ce que nous sommes.

Juzga para no ser juzgado el peor de los seres, el cobarde de espíritu, perezosamente dispuesto a todo, que se niega a juzgar.

I'd so rather be a living snack than dead meat.

Did you… need something?" he asked in a tight voice. I swallowed hard, my mind racing with a million things to say. The fear pricking at me, telling me I had one last chance to wimp out. To walk away. But I shook my head. No. Not this time. "Yes," I said simply. "I need something." "And what, may I ask, do you need?" I met his eyes. "You.

No one knows how strong they are until they have to be.

Is this what life is all about? To bring us face to face with our worst fears until they no longer scare us?

Instead of thinking, "Why me?" I think, "Why not me?"' Extract from One Blink at a Time In

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability…To be alive is to be vulnerable' Madeleine L'Engle

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back-but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.

What she saw in their eyes terrified her. She was a woman traveling alone, in a country that had not seen exposed female faces in over five years. She turned back and cried tears of frustration all the way to Pakistan. ...Asra..., I find her fantasy delightful. Who else would risk her life to take stuffies to Afghanistan?

I won't show weakness here, but, damn it, tears don't mean I'm frail and pathetic, only that I'm unhappy.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

Love is a hero's journey, and the hero's journey is a noble but difficult path.

You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.

Fear comes, but fear passes.

Don't stop now. Keep going. The next time someone makes you feel though, winning as you are, perhaps you're getting too big for your britches; say to them silently, i haven't even started yet.

What's dying is the frightened mind, so the love inside us can get a chance to breathe.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

We are afraid to allow ourselves to blossom fully because of the general disapproval that fills our air whenever a 'little lady' forgets her place.

Our deepest fears is not that we are inadequate, . . .

Slowly but surely, you will learn to behave as you would have wished to behave but were too wounded to know how.

The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.