Quotes About Courage

It is a terrible thing To be so open: it is as if my heart Put on a face and walked into the world. —SYLVIA PLATH, "A POEM FOR THREE VOICES

Empowerment is something that happens throughout your healing, as courage and success in facing your memories build your self-esteem. Some of the strengths you get from taking on your buried memories does not show up in your life until long after the resolution has been achieved.

Oh yeah, 'coming out may be more of a process than an event.

But it's always better to be alone than to be in a relationship that has outlived its purpose. When you're alone, you can live your life on your terms. It will definitely be scary at first, especially if you've never been alone.

If you don't have strength, read Psalm 73:26. If you need help with forgiveness, try Acts 3:19. If you need to see a way out of no way, try First Corinthians 10:13.

Allow yourself to envision us together," he'd told her just last week. Stella shook her head. No, there was no future with someone she was ashamed to be seen with in public.

Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots would want to.

Mrs. Rachel Bruner: [trying to goad Wolfe] I thought you were afraid of nobody and nothing. Nero Wolfe: [unruffled] I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

A scared man is only half a man.

But if and when I find myself up a tree with a circle of man-eating tigers crouching on the ground below, and a squad of beavers starting to gnaw at the trunk of the tree, the sight of Saul approaching would be absolutely beautiful. I have never seen him fazed.

I can dodge folly without backing into fear. - Nero Wolfe in "The Doorbell Rang

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

I'm pissed off because of all the fuckin' people who shut their eyes while others are victimized because it doesn't benefit them to get involved. It pissed me off that every-fuckin'-body is such a tough guy until a tough situation is actually present to them. Then they become crying little pussies blaming the world and everything in it.

I'm pissed off because of all the fuckin' people who shut their eyes while others are victimized because it doesn't benefit them to get involved. It pissed me off that every-fuckin'-body is such a tough guy until a tough situation is actually present to them. Then they become crying little pussies blaming the world and everything it in.

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

Get out of your head and into your heart

Without risk, being fearless is impossible

The key to taking confident action is trusting the nudge in your soul

Obstacles don't decide the fate of your dream, you do

You can master your fears. But first you have to know them.

If you are waiting until you are ready, you are using the wrong criteria to change your life.

The more you trust yourself, the more you will change the world