Quotes About Courage

Ventriloquism kind of helped me find my voice. It's really helped me come out of my shell.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

A mission to Rangoon we had been accustomed to regard with feelings of horror. But it was now brought to a point. We must either venture there or be sent to Europe.

Men climb mountains, scale heights, venture into the unexplored to prove to other men it can be done.

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

I didn't wait around for my parents' opinion about my venture out into contemporary music.

Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

My faith has always supported me in my ventures, so boom.

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.

I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.

I'd split up with a boyfriend and gone to Vermont to stare at my navel, and then 9/11 happened, and I spent days being scared of what was happening in the world. So I made a list of all the things I wanted to do, and at the top was adopt a baby. Nine months and two days later, I brought my daughter home.

Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.'

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

Nu sunt atât de laÈ™ ca s? îmi fie team? c? fac pe cineva s? sufere atunci când trebuie s-o fac.

La peur, c'était bon avant, quand nous gardions de l'espoir.

Est-ce que c'est possible qu'on soit lâche quand on a choisi les chemins les plus dangereux ? Peut-on juger une vie sur un seul acte ?

You know, it's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness …. There is even a moment, right at the start, where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

We must have the courage to write those first words, stringing them together and perhaps stumbling, but staying in motion.

The true self is always in motion—like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why you must freely and recklessly make new mistakes—in writing or life—and do not dwell on them but move on and write more. —Brenda Ueland