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Quotes About Courage

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
~ Ayn Rand
To fear to face an issue to believe that the worst is true. --Atlas Shrugged
~ Ayn Rand
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.
~ Ayn Rand
Your fear of death is not a love for life. . .
~ Ayn Rand
Do not let the hero in your soul perish...
~ Ayn Rand
I am not brave enough to be a coward, she said. I see the consequences too clearly
~ Ayn Rand
Dont switch the blame to her, that's the oldest trick of all cowards
~ Ayn Rand
They have to take a chance, everything they do is taking a chance, but they feel so much safer when they take it on something they know to be ugly, vain and stupid.
~ Ayn Rand
Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
~ Ayn Rand
That man, the unsubmissive and first, stands in the opening chapter of every legend mankind has recorded about its beginning. Prometheus was chained to a rock and torn by vultures—because he had stolen the fire of the gods. Adam was condemned to suffer—because he had eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage.
~ Ayn Rand
I'll be afraid only on a day that will never come. The day when I give up.
~ Ayn Rand
So long as road lies before us, and what care we if we must travel it alone!
~ Ayn Rand
It's very uncomfortable to be a hero, Joel, and you don't have the figure for it.
~ Ayn Rand
He decided that if he ever got the chance again, he would get out of his comfort zone and adapt to change sooner. It would make things easier.
~ Spencer Johnson
Haw realized he had been held captive by his own fear.
~ Spencer Johnson
It's time to find New Cheese." Hem argued, "But what if there is no Cheese out there? Or even if there is, what if you don't find it?" "I don't know," Haw said. He had asked himself those same questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was. He asked himself, "Where am I more likely to find Cheese—here or in the Maze?
~ Spencer Johnson
What would I do if I weren't afraid?
~ Spencer Johnson
Sometimes we're not even aware that we're afraid.
~ Spencer Johnson
He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there. So
~ Spencer Johnson
You Create A Peak When You Truly Follow Your Sensible Vision. Your Fear Fades And You Become More Peaceful And Successful.
~ Spencer Johnson
Only one hand went up. "Well, it looks like we've got one honest person in our group!" she said. And then continued, "Maybe you'll like this next question better. How many here think other people are afraid of change?" Practically everyone raised their hands. Then they all started laughing.
~ Spencer Johnson
She said, "I'm curious. How many here are afraid of change?" No one responded so she suggested, "How about a show of hands?" Only one hand went up. "Well, it looks like we've got one honest person in our group!" she said. And then continued, "Maybe you'll like this next question better. How many here think other people are afraid of change?" Practically everyone raised their hands. Then they all started laughing.
~ Spencer Johnson
but he was discovering what nourished his soul. He was letting go and trusting what lay ahead for him, even though he did not know exactly what it was.
~ Spencer Johnson
when he was afraid to changed he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there
~ Spencer Johnson