Quotes About Courage

That's what courage is—doing something that needs to be done even though you're afraid

lowered her voice to a whisper, a conspiratorial gleam in her eyes. "Go for it." *

Sometimes the only way to deal with fear and pain is to open your heart to it. Grandma Alice says there's nothing we can't overcome, as long as our hearts stay open.

To grow up without risk is to risk not growing up.

You're afraid, Chris. You don't let yourself trust or feel too deeply, because you don't want to be hurt. I don't want to be hurt either." ...Lindsay Reynoso

We must plant the seed of desire, water it with sincere faith. If you think you are beaten you are. If you dare not, you don't. If you want to win, but think you can't, it is almost sure you won't." 14

there is a rock bottom that you can hit, even if you are young and beautiful and smart and loved.

The rules of the track work well for life. Roller derby is life in a tiny circle. You can only go forward, even if you find yourself turned around, facing the wrong way. There's speed, unpredictability, and danger. You can't be sure what's going to happen, you don't always know when you'll stop, and it appears most people are out to get you. You will fall. You will get hurt. But you will get up again.

I'm really sorry." "There's no sorry in roller derby. Now shut up and keep being my hero.

world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."   —Albert Einstein, Renown Scientist

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Only the Brave succeed in life.

Elle repensa à la devise du vrai Du Guesclin : "Le courage donne ce que la beauté refuse.

Joséphine avait peur, si peur. Elle aurait pu indiquer précisément où elle avait peur, mesurer la longueur, l'épaisseur, le diamètre de la barre qui lui écrasait le plexus et l'empêchait de respirer.

Men are loyal when you lead from the front.

In looking back over the years I wouldn't go so far as to say I have never been brave, but most of the things for which I had been given credit for bravery were nothing but daredevil stunts. I was trying to build up my own ego, trying to imitate the bravery of people I had read about or had been told about in the years gone by.

she knows the truth: being free and facing the world with all its monsters is better than being safe and leaving your life unlived.

Where do the strong go to be weak?

Be not afraid." As one who is no stranger to fear, I have had to read those words with care so as not to twist them into a discouraging counsel of perfection. "Be not afraid" does not mean we cannot have fear. Everyone has fear, and people who embrace the call to leadership often find fear abounding. Instead, the words say we do not need to be the fear we have. We do not have to lead from a place of fear, thereby engendering a world in which fear is multiplied.

What happened to "we have nothing to fear but fear itself"?

The courage to teach is the courage to keep one's heart open in those very moments when the heart is asked to hold more than it is able so that teacher and students and subjects can be woven into the community that learning, and living, require.

This was a step into darkness that I had been trying to avoid—the darkness of seeing myself more honestly than I really wanted to.

As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.