Quotes About Courage

People would rather die in invented safety than live in invigorating fear.

A policy of moving out and doing it, and asking forgiveness afterward, is much better than a policy of asking permission and having it denied.

what mankind must do to save itself is to launch an enterprise aimed at leaving the earth. On this task he thought the energies of mankind could be concentrated and the need for heroism could be satisfied.

Man is not satisfied with a happy idyllic life: he has the need to fight and to encounter danger.

Generosity is meaningless to a god, who never suffers shortage or want; courage is meaningless to a god, who is immortal and can never suffer permanent injury, and so on. Our virtues and our dignity arise from our mortality, our humanity—and not from any success in being God.

Whenever I feel afraid I hold my head erect and whistle a happy tune.

Walk on, walk on With hope in your heart And you'll never walk alone

One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway… We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking… The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

I guess prophets are those who do not care whether you are ready to hear their message. They say it because it has to be said and because it is true.

If your prayer is not enticing you outside your comfort zones, if your Christ is not an occasional "threat," you probably need to do some growing up and learning to love.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

You do not climb up to your True Self. You fall into it, so don't avoid all falling

Am I willing to walk into the wilds of my interior life without knowing what I'll find?

There is Someone dancing with you and you no longer need to prove to anyone that you are right, nor are you afraid of making mistakes. Another word for that is faith.

Jesus puts healed people back on themselves, never creating any kind of dependency or codependency on him that will keep them from their own empowerment. All people must learn to draw from their own Implanted Spirit, which is the only thing that will help them in the long run anyway. Jesus gives them the courage to trust their own "inner Christ"—and not just its outer manifestation in himself. Go reread the Gospels and see if that is not true!

As my father, Saint Francis, put it, "If you have once faced the great death, the second death can do you no harm.

We are glad when someone survives, and that surely took some courage and effort. But what are you going to do with your now resurrected life? That is the heroic question.

We need to encounter the hero within and let him lead us on the adventure of our lives.

Far too many people just keep doing repair work on the container itself and never "throw their nets into the deep" (John 21:6)

Falling upward is a "secret" of the soul, known not by thinking about it or proving it but only by risking it—at least once.

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

Great saints are both courageous and creative; they are "yes, and" or non-dual thinkers who never get trapped in the small world of "either-or" except in the ways of love and courage, where they are indeed all or nothing.

First half of life folks will seldom have the courage to go forward at this point unless they have a guide, a friend, a Virgil, a Tiresias, a Beatrice, a soul friend or a stumbling block to guide them toward the goal. There are few in our religious culture who understand the necessity of mature, internalized conscience so wise guides are hard to find. You will have many more Aarons building you golden calves than Moses' leading you on any exodus.

Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that.