Quotes About Courage

The issue for me, both as a writer and as a spiritual seeker, is courage—the courage to be there myself, and the courage to allow the reader to be there—to see, to touch, to taste, to smell,

It is what we love the most / can make us most afraid

God doesn't take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.

Quit? Quit? We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities, because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment. When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in

Yes. It is. —June 23, 2012, at night driving from Henrietta back to Knoxville with the tape recorder off, thirteen months after diagnosis

Neither cruelty, nor violence, nor torture will make me beg for mercy, because I prefer to die with my head raised high, with unshakeable faith... In my country's predestination rather than live in submission forsaking my sacred principles.

If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-

When you put your hands and mind and heart into the knowing of a thing ... there is no room in you for fear.

Aristocracy was linked to a nobility of mind, a purity of spirit, as well as inexhaustible courage.

As far as she was concerned, aristocracy had nothing to do with money or social position. Aristocracy was linked to a nobility of mind, a purity of spirit, as well as inexhaustible courage.

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.

Love means leaving yourself vulnerable, knowing that there is someone to catch you when you fall. ~ Mercy

Hijo de chihuahua !

People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He'd discovered that he had never been brave before—just indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.

If you make my children, make any child, feel bad for who they are, I will teach you why people fear mama grizzlies more than papa grizzlies.

This world has need of song and sword.

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.

Death is not to be feared. Death is easy. It is living that is brutal.

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

We're the good guys. That we're scary doesn't mean we're the villains.