Quotes About Courage

Life has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

I want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it's more interesting to be dangerous.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

Did you ever want something so deeply you were scared to let yourself have it? Like a desire so great you know you will never forgive yourself if you fail. So you hang back. And then you wake up one day and you realize if you don't do it now, it will move out of reach forever.

I don't believe fundamentally in anything but the awakening of spirit, hope, and freedom.

But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted. "I know. Fear is only fear, though." "And somehow you live without it." "No," he corrected her. "You live with it.

What was more brutal than loss of hope?

She pictured herself in a world without him, a world where she had only her own heart and mind to follow. A world open and blank with possibility; terrifying, almost.

Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're willing to brave the shadows with you--and in your greatest moments--because they're not afraid to let you shine.

Fear cannot bind us, if we have faith.

Everyone May Have A Different Source Of Inner Strength, Keep Close To Yours.

Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed.

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

I have to adhere to the truth," I said.

A big tree catches the wind' is a true saying.

She fought for the right to love, men and women, rejecting the conventions that marriage demands exclusive love, and that women should love only men, and men only women. For this she was prepared to give up everything … How could she regret that the knowledge of it should now reach the ears of a new generation, one so infinitely more compassionate than her own?

Fair Maiden Lilliard lies under this stane, Little was her stature but great was her fame; Upon the English loons she laid many thumps, And when her legs were cuttied off she fought upon her stumps.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

Niki Behrikis Shanahan

Mon père, secrètement, devait étouffer dans sa vie mais il manquait du courage d'une vraie révolte. La petite fille que j'étais sera la seule victime de sa lamentable rébellion.

No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat from curiosity and wonder, an endless series of delays and procrastinations. You wanted to be so much, once, but life kept on getting in the way... You settled. Shunned creativity, flight, risk, never had the courage to give a dream, any dream, a go.

Let there be no hesitations, no regrets, no compromises - they are at once cowardly and vain.

And so begin again by doing what I really want to do. Work. Aspiring to an existence with a lot of quiet in it. Turning from people I don't needing my life. Shunning bits busyness. Finding the courage to say no. I need to be good at being alive again.