Quotes About Courage

I'm off in search of adventure,even though i am sixty fve and fully aware of all the limitations that age can bring....

We know what we want to do, but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream. We do not realize that love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey.

Cuando no tuve nada que perder, lo perdí todo. Cuando dejé de ser quién era, me encontré a mi mismo. Cuando conocí la humillación y aún así seguí caminando, entendí que era libre para escoger mi destino.

When I have been truly searching for my treasure, everyday has been luminous, because I've known that every hour was a part of the dream that I would find it. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.

If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens.

I, too, get scared, but it's at such moments that I discover a wisdom that is beyond me, and I go forward.

El amor no hace muchas preguntas, porque si empezamos a pensar empezamos a tener miedo. Es un miedo inexplicable, y no vale la pena intentar traducirlo en palabras. »Puede ser el miedo al desprecio, a no ser aceptada, a quebrar el encanto. Parece ridículo, pero es así. Por eso no se pregunta: se actúa. Como tú mismo has dicho tantas veces, se corren los riesgos.

Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace. Sometimes fear is necessary for the soul to find its path again.

We will not fear the darkness because we are partners of the light.

because a man must choose. Therein lieth his strength: the power of his decisions.

Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment, et cetera. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn't live. Because one day they will look back and hear their own heart say: 'I wasted my life.' 

You were not merely a person unjustly accused of espionage, but someone who dared to challenge certain customs. And for that you could not be forgiven. However

they are people who are not afraid of making mistakes and who do, therefore, make mistakes, which is why their work often goes unrecognised.

Because a lie can never make you stronger, no matter how many times you tell it.

How many terrible moments for women begin with the words "so I opened the door"?

Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.

Had she not created even him? Perhaps for that he never forgave her, but hated her and fought her secretly, and dominated her and oppressed her and kept her locked in houses and her feet bound and her waist tied, and forbade her wages and skills and learning, and widowed her when she was dead, and burned her sometimes to ashes, pretending that it was her faithfulness that did it.

Perhaps, Yuan, such laws as this are only keys to unlock a door to a closed garden, and we must throw the key recklessly away and go forth into that garden boldly by imagination—or call it faith

I don't know, Pierce. But I do know that when men are frightened and discontented they gather around any man who is not afraid.

You see how loving kindness conquers fear, even in animals. Let this lesson be engraved upon your hearts.

When there were none but these two left in the hall, Wang the Tiger leaned forward out of his carven seat and he said in a hard, hoarse voice, Woman, you are free. Choose where you will go and I will send someone to take you there. And she answered simply, with all the boldness gone out of her, except that she could look at him in the eyes while she said it, I have chosen already. I am your bondswoman.

To step off the island was to be drowned in the sea.

Let no man's heart fail because of Goliath. - David