Quotes About Courage

Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas and to sell those ideas, the courage to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move on to the next adventure.

Panic freezes you. Nobody is going to go into your head and take the panic away. But action leaks the panic out of your head.

First off, people say "it doesn't hurt to ask" precisely when it does hurt to ask.

Even if you aren't an expert, give yourself permission to be a producer. Produce!

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now.

All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years

In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.

One must say Yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found—and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is.

If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it bring must be borne. And at this level of experience one's bitterness begins to be palatable, and hatred becomes too heavy a sack to carry.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

We stared at each other across a narrow space that was full of danger, that almost seemed to roar, like flame. 'Come,' he said.

She marched into the street, found a liquor store and bought a bottle; and the weight of the bottle in her straw handbag somehow made everything real; as the purchase of a railroad ticket proves the imminence of a journey.

I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me.

Some moments in a life, and they needn't be very long or seem very important, can make up for so much in that life; can redeem, justify, that pain, that bewilderment, with which one lives, and invest one with the courage not only to endure it, but to profit from it; some moments teach one the price of the human connection: if one can live with one's own pain, then one respects the pain of others, and so, briefly, but transcendentally, we can release each other from pain.

People find it very difficult to act on what they know. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

It's the only light we've got in all this darkness

The life you think you should want,' said Eric, 'is always the life that looks safest.

The dream of safety dies hard.