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Quotes About Courage

Durven is even de grond onder je voeten verliezen. Niet durven is je leven verliezen.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Christian heroism, and indeed one perhaps sees little enough of that, is to risk unreservedly being oneself, an individual human being, this specific individual human being alone before God, alone in this enormous exertion and this enormous accountability
~ Soren Kierkegaard
by not venturing, it is so dreadfully easy to lose that which it would be difficult to lose in even the most venturesome venture…For if I have ventured amiss – very well, then life helps me by its punishment. But if I have not ventured at all – who then helps me?
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
La angustia, sin embargo, no es hermosa por sí misma, sino solamente cuando aparece acompañada por la energía que sabe dominarla.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
También yo he sentido la inclinación a obligarme, casi de una manera demoníaca, a ser más fuerte de lo que en realidad soy.
~ Soren Kierkergaard
Never hide your fear because it will become your own God, hidden inside you.
~ Sorin Cerin
Life is not tried it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.
~ Garth Brooks
I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.
~ Gennifer Flowers
If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.
~ George Bernard Shaw
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
~ George Eliot
He that feares death lives not.
~ George Herbert
Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope.
~ George R. R. Martin
I started boxing late but I've always been a fighter all my life.
~ George Tahdooahnippah
Life's biggest rewards come from the biggest challenges
~ Greg Behrendt
Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.
~ Harry S. Truman
Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again.
~ Heidi Marshall
I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.
~ Henri Nouwen
In their daily life, all are braver than they know.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.
~ Henry Rollins
I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
~ Herbie Hancock