Quotes About Courage

He most probably knew, already as a child, that he would accomplish great deeds of daring, and the trappings that would someday result were to be thought of as no more than diplomas. Medals were merely signatures upon the histories of dutiful deeds, which would have transpired with or without them.

Once danger becomes its own reward, risk moves from a threat to be avoided to a challenge to be risen toward.

Sooner or later, there's always a Jaws: a mental hurdle we can't clear, a decision too dangerous to attack head on. In those situations, sideways is forward.

It is not often that Death is told so clearly to fuck off.

Fully alive and deeply committed is a risky business.

Nothing's too gnarly.

as Thomas Pynchon wrote in Gravity's Rainbow, "It is not often that Death is told so clearly to fuck off.

If ever you say you can't do something," shouts the announcer, "remember Danny Way.

Well, for starters, the obvious: we all seem to agree genius begins with feats of mental greatness. The thinking needs to be novel, so the results need to be beyond what most can envision. As it takes courage to push past the confines of culture, the thinking must also be brave. Because an athlete's canvas is nothing more than his body moving through space and time, then an act of genius must also be defined as an act of redefinition–redefining what is possible for the human body.

The true challenge is how you continue doing it, after you've ridden the biggest wave, crossed the longest distance. You set up challenges that are more than what you ever did before. And by getting through it, you get the sensation you've completed something. And if it's dangerous, then other things that scare you, the experience will strengthen you for those situations.

It means you lose by not trying to play full out, by not trying to do the impossible—whatever that is for you.

But, seriously, when in history did fear of death ever come between a man and his drugs?

Most people are so afraid of dying they never live.

Dr. Weiss stood. There are two things you need to know right off the bat: The first is that it takes great courage to admit fear or that you need hep. Just by being here, you've proven that you have the courage. And the second id that we never get what we wish for - ever. He shrugged. We get what we work for. He looked into David's eyes. Are you prepared to put in the work, David McClain?

es mejor provocar un estallido, por enorme que sea, que estar en deuda con el mundo por preservarte».

Behavioral science is not for sissies.

When gentlemen agreed to a duel, they were fighting not for money or land or even women but for honor, the strange commodity that exists because everyone believes that everyone else believes that it exists.

There are but three groups worthy of respect," wrote Charles Baudelaire, "the priest, the warrior, and the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.

Happy those who with a glowing faith in one embrace clasped death and victory.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

No more holding back. Be reckless. Tell your Love to everybody.

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.