Quotes About Courage

This is the place, you say to yourself, this is the place where everything starts to begin, the wounds reveal a thicker skin and suddenly there is no floor.

we laugh and it pits the world against us, we laugh, and we've got nothing left to lose

Take the light inside you like a blessing, like a knee in the chest, holding onto it and not letting go. Now let it go.

We have been very brave, we have wanted to know the worst, wanted the curtain to be lifted from our eyes.

We can do anything. It's not because our hearts are large, they're not, it's what we struggle with

And that is how he would describe courage: pretending to be brave. Fearlessness is stupidity. Courage is not letting the fear defeat you.

Courage is not the absence of fear, he taught me. It's learning to overcome it.

Just as pretending to be brave can become real courage, we may find that outfitting ourselves as the person we want to be brings us closer to becoming that person.

Even after emerging from prison and becoming South Africa's first democratically elected president, he continued

He believes that, just as pretending to be brave can lead to acts of real bravery, seeing the good in other people improves the chances that they will reveal their better selves.

Being a warrior doesn't mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live.

Everyone needs a superhero to champion them now and again, to rush to their aid when there's a fierce dragon approaching, a massive army attacking or a scary catacomb to navigate

The samurai lived by a simple creed – no hesitation, no doubt, no surprise, no fear.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

My image was all daring deeds, until my swash began to buckle a bit

Richard Townshend Bickers

We were taught to be God-fearing," my mother said. "One who loves does not brandish fear or require it.

Can you stand?" Waabooz asked. "Yes," Buffalo said. "Why?" "If you stand there calmly you won't sink any farther and we can work together to get you out of there." "Are you certain?" Buffalo asked. "I feel the bog pull at me even now." "I am not certain," Waabooz said. "But Trust does not require certainty.

Love is not about rescue, I understand now - it's about allowing. In the Ojibway world, love is the process of you leading me back to who I am. You do that by stepping back and allowing the creative, nurturing energy of the universe to work. That's the most courageous thing you can do when you love somebody. Deb showed me that. Both of us knew we'd found communion with one another. We're loyal to the vision of our togetherness.

Love is unbroken country. Every step ya take deeper into it changes you. Makes you more. Changes the geography of who you are. And if yer brave enough to enter it alone and find your place in it, ya can't never be lonesome again on accounta ya come to live in everything love touches.

Beggary. It's not the sole

They scooped out our insides, Saul. We're not responsible for that. We're not responsible for what happened to us. None of us are." Fred said. "But our healing—that's up to us. That's what saved me. Knowing it was my game." "Could be a long game," I said. "So what if it is?" he said. "Just keep your stick on the ice and your feet moving. Time will take care of itself.

Amid the slaps and pokes and guffaws that greeted them, I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are. I became drunk with that.

Ask us, prophet, how we shall callOur natures forth when that live tongue is allDispelled, that glass obscured or brokenIn which we have said the rose of our love and the cleanHorse of our courage, in which beheldThe singing locust of the soul unshelled,And all we mean or wish to mean.