Quotes About Courage

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Naming is an exercise of power. Renaming involves a transfer of power. Unnaming is a stripping of power from the unnamed and often an abuse of power on the part of those who presume to reduce names to numbers, for instance. It takes courage to name what is being deliberately and defensively obscured. Plain language is not always welcome.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

On the other side of fear lies freedom

It's not so sure that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear ... . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

We have created a world we don't like, don't understand and don't trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.

She said, "Only the weak are afraid to appear so.

When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.

Because when you're really scared to do something … do it right away.

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

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.

It's not about the elimination of fear. Rather it's about the elimination of the feeling that the elimination of fear is necessary before we take the next step.

When fears are screaming in your ears, try to hear the whispers of your faith and run into that dark path. That is how you reach the paradise.

They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.

Fear? There is no fear when you ride a MotoGP bike. If there is fear, you don't enjoy it. And if you don't enjoy it, you'd better stay at home.

fear is the starter pistol to life's greatest moments

One must feel fear without allowing fear to control them.