Quotes About Courage

As I sit with pen in hand, I am wondering, "Just what the hell do you think you are doing, Kelly?" I ask myself all the questions: how and why and will they be able to understand; can you spell good enough to get this message across? I keep coming up with the same answer: "Give it a try"- this as you see, is what I will do.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

And for a moment she was the heroine again. Battling the odds. But just for a moment. Because suddenly it was clear to me again that all she could do was take it, powerless. And lose. And I remember thinking at least it's not me. If I wanted to I could even join them. For that moment, thinking that, I had power.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

Fear controls you.

Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

We need a warrior's heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

Do not be afraid to face your difficulty. Turn toward it. Lean into the wind. Hold your ground.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

We are rarely lazy—we are simply afraid.

When we let ourselves feel the fear, the discontent, the difficulties we have always avoided, our heart softens. Just as it is a courageous act to face all the difficulties from which we have always run, it is also an act of compassion.

Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation.

Our belief in a limited and impoverished identity is such a strong habit that without it we are afraid we wouldn't know how to be.

We've done this as human beings before. We're survivors. We have generations of ancestors behind us cheering us on, and saying, 'Yep, we've lived through some tough stuff too.

Fear is the membrane between what we know and something new. It tells us we are about to open to something bigger than the world we usually experience.

celebrate your survival

The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do children as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.

If you don't lose that fear of death, then you can never appreciate life or take the chances life gives you.