Quotes About Courage

I used to worry about fitting in until I realized the reason I didn't fit in was because I didn't want to.

Living with anxiety, turning up, and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most people will never know.

There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous.

Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up. Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up. Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up. Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up.

So, as was often the case, a big fear was beaten by a bigger fear. The best way to beat a monster is to find a scarier one.

I don't think your problem was stage fright. Or wedding fright. I think your problem was life fright.

The most powerful moment in life is when you decide not to be scared anymore.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise. Keep your head down. Keep your stamina. Keep swimming...

Start fires. But only metaphorically. Unless you are cold and it's a safe setting. In which case: start fires.

Monsters are real," Stephen King said. "And ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Don't do the work people expect you to do. Do the work you want to do. You only get one life. It's always best to live it as yourself.

Better to be disliked for being you, than being liked for being someone else.

Rumi wrote in the twelfth century, 'The wound is the place where the light enters you.' (He also wrote: 'Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.')

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. —Albert Camus, A Happy Death

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,' Thoreau had said. 'Live the life you've imagined.

Nothing is stronger then a small hope that doesn't give up

Love now. Love right now. If you have someone to love, do it this instant LOVE FEARLASSLY.

You need to be uncomfortable. You need to hurt. As the Persian poet Rumi wrote in the twelfth century, "The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Bertrand Russell wrote that 'To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'.

I had never been one of those males who were scared of tears. I'd been a Cure fan, for God's sake.

A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it. It's sometimes more dangerous to shy away. You can't live your life in fear. You have to be prepared to get on your board and stand on your feet. If you are in the barrel of a wave you have to ignore the fear. You have to be in that moment. You have to carve on through. You get scared, and the next thing you know you are off your board and smashing your head on a rock. I'm never going to live in fear.

Lincoln is not the only famous leader to have battled depression. Winston Churchill lived with the 'black dog' for much of his life too. Watching a fire, he once remarked to a young researcher he was employing: 'I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed.

Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up.

Be brave. Be strong. Breathe, and keep going. You will thank yourself later.