Quotes About Courage

Nearly two decades later, I can say that the only thing that allowed me to take that leap was because a deeper, wiser part of me believed that somehow I'd be able to figure it out.

Just because someone doesn't like what you do doesn't mean no one else will. A person's opinion is not The Truth, it's their truth.

Remember that gal that gave up? Neither does anyone else. Unknown

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt

The fastest way out of our fear is through it.

Yet there can be no significant change in the world unless we first have the courage to change ourselves. In order to change ourselves, we must first believe we can.

There can be no significant change in the world unless we first have the courage to change ourselves. In order to change ourselves, we must first believe we can.

A key to success is to start before you are ready.

This isn't always possible, but train yourself to move toward discomfort. Put yourself in situations that feel scary and intimidating—that's where the figureoutable magic is!

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that. Haruki Murakami

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Attributed to Marie Curie

You never get stronger if you only do easy things. I didn't want fear to calcify in my bones. I refuse to energetically shrink down into a smaller, less capable me. Just because I made a mistake and messed up didn't mean I was going to give up.

You're not broken or weak if you're afraid. You're human.

You wouldn't have the dream if you didn't already have what it takes to make it happen.

You might have heard that "fear" is the acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real. Or maybe you roll with the cheeky edition: Fuck Everything and Run. I prefer the more actionable version: Face Everything and Rise.

Fear is not the enemy. Waiting to stop feeling afraid is.

Action is the antidote to fear.

Doing the thing is far easier than the terror we inflict upon ourselves by stressing over it in our heads. The fastest way out of our fear is through it.

Avoidance doesn't extinguish your fear, action does.

Marie G. McIntyre

One day it happens: what you have feared all your life, the unendurably specific, the exact thing. No matter what you say or do.

the bridge appears when you walk across it—that

Burn, or speak your mind. For the oak to untruss its passion it must explode as fire or leaves.

Accettare di non essere come gli altri, e così continuare la propria strada come si sente che sia giusto, esige in realtà una grande rettitudine e molto coraggio.