Quotes About Courage

That's what we did, didn't we, Audrey? We learned to be brave when it was easier to be afraid.

The risk in giving love and receiving love is better than the safety of not loving at all.

Fear is worse than pain, I think. Pain is centralized, identifiable, and wanes as you wait. Fear is a heaviness you can't wriggle out from under.

the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't.

with courage and resolve and the refusal to allow those without voices to remain unheard.

Everything in my life suddenly shifted into focus. It was like time froze and I was given a dazzling moment to comprehend the difference between that moment and the one before it. No one made choices for me. I made them. If I took no risks in the choices I'd made, it was because I didn't have the courage to take them or didn't want to live with the consequences. I didn't want to risk disappointment myself. It had been safer to defer than to strike our on my own.

Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't.

Maybe being brave is different from being unafraid. If you're not afraid, what is there to be brave about?

hope you have the courage and wisdom to make different choices.

Only one way out now. I love you, Taryn. I'm coming.

Sometimes it's not about right and wrong but now and later. Right now, we are having to put up with a difficult situation that we don't deserve, and it's not right. But later, when the war is over, we'll remember that we didn't let it break us. . . .

That makes it survival. That is what you do in war. You find a way to survive.

The capacity to return hate with love wipes reason off the map, at least for a while. I cannot understand it any more than I can understand how, knowing that story, black churches across America continue to open their doors and their hearts to white strangers again and again. What love and courage. What courage and love.

Okay, fuck the sundial. We'll just go straight and eventually we'll get there. What I mean is that we'll get somewhere. Out of here. I mean, logically, we have to get out as long as we walk straight. I've done this millions of times. Whenever everything's killing me, I just say to myself, screw it, and go straight ahead.

Even the oddest, most particular book was written with that kind of crazy courage—the writer's belief that someone would find his or her book important to read.

Even the oddest, most particular book was written with that kind of crazy courage—the writer's belief that someone would find his or her book important to read. I was struck by how precious and foolish and brave that belief is, and how necessary, and how full of hope it is to collect these books and manuscripts and preserve them.

Even the oddest, most particular book was written with that kind of crazy courage - the writer's belief that someone would find his or her book important to read.

This is the smartest thing I've ever done, and also the scariest.

It made her feel discouraged, like if you took the word apart into two sections of dis and couraged. It was getting harder and harder to stay couraged.

The whole world is full of danger. But also it is full of beauty and courage and many wonders.

Boldness is a mask of fear, however so great

Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.

Instead of making it safe, love—whether for all beings or for one—actually breaks your heart. Being loved is uncomfortable; and the more I love, the more uncomfortable it is. In the end, I'm still not quite sure what I've vowed to do either as a wife or a bodhisattva, except to break my own heart, over and over. And to see what happens next.

Tranquility, compassion, and wisdom are the components of fearlessness, not power, control, and remaining unaffected.