Quotes About Courage

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Understanding is a delaying tactic…," as one novelist put it. "Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of water want to understand. Other people jump in and get wet.

Are you Stupid?" "Huh?" "Hotoba-san, Even if you are far away the sky i always connected. Friends are friend no matter where you are. Change isn't so bad...I was scared of change too. We're both scared. Lets be friend...okay?

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Más que un ejército hiriendo vence un héroe perdonando.

She could hear them giggling when she was already halfway down the block, but she pretended to be deaf; she didn't care. She had calluses from being teased so much.

Cuando estás así tenés una valentía que te hace hacer cosas que antes no hacías.

Podréis quitarme las monedas que llevo encima, podréis quitarme el reloj de mi muñeca y las llaves que llevo en el bolsillo, podéis quitarme hasta la vida; sólo hay una cosa que no podréis quitarme, por mucho empeño que pongáis: el miedo que tengo.

now that I had finally confronted him, he had lost his power over me.

Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.

When they lock the door, climb out the window. – Mr. Morrison, volunteer at the Humane Society

fearful—reflect

Some of us just go along . . . until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us -- or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Do not be afriad! I can see that Americans are not afraid. They are not afraid of the sun, they are not afraid of the wind, they are not afraid of 'today'. They are, generally speaking, brave, good people. And so I say to you today, always be brave. Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. God is with you. Do not be afraid to search for God-then you will truly be the land of the free, the home of the brave. God Bless America.

He [Pope Benedict XVI] spoke of the distilled message of John Paul's reign: "Be not afraid

Prayer is the hardest thing. And no one congratulates you for doing it because no one knows you're doing it, and if things turn out well they likely won't thank God in any case. But I have a feeling that the hardest thing is what we all better be doing now, and that it's not only the best answer but the only one.

If you've never seen a steel magnolia on the warpath, you've missed one of the world's greatest wonders.

People are attracted to those who fully live life without excuses.

Cad é an mhaith dom eagla a bheith orm? Ní shaorfadh eagla duine ón mbás, dar ndóigh.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.