Quotes About Courage

We are so attached to the unhelpful familiar, in fact, that we will spend our valuable, very finite time here on Earth crafting excuses to keep ourselves right where we are, instead of leaping into the glorious unknown and growing into who we're really meant to be.

it all started because she made the decision to grow and did the one thing that scared the living crap out of her that she knew would get her to her goal.

But you don't have wait until you hit rock bottom to start crawling out of your hole.

Doch Sie müssen ja nicht unbedingt den Tiefpunkt abwarten, um endlich aus Ihrem Loch herauszukriechen.

Wenn Sie ein Leben führen wollen, wie Sie es noch nie geführt haben, müssen Sie Dinge tun, die Sie noch nie getan haben.

So if you finally decide to quit your soul-crushing job and start the pastry shop of your dreams, be not upset if a truck drives through your front window into your scones. Instead of taking this as a sign that you shouldn't have opened your shop, take it to mean that you're ridding yourself of your BS and moving in the right direction.

Trying to troubleshoot outcomes, denying yourself your dreams, not daring to take large leaps so the people around you won't be all "someone's gotten mighty big for her britches!" is a complete waste of time (and your life). Focus on you, and what makes you hop back and forth from foot to foot in excitement, because not living your life is no way to live.

There's no better teacher than necessity. 4. Passion trumps fear.

Allow yourself to experience whatever your heart desires as if this is your one and only chance to take the ride of your life.

Anticipating the discomfort. When you know doubling your rates is going to feel freaky and scary, feel into these feelings before bringing your new rates to your clients. Hang out in discomfort, get used to it, realize it's just part of the process and don't create a huge drama around it. Associate your discomfort with the awesomeness of moving forward and kicking ass instead of with something terrifying that can stop you.

Your faith in The Universe must be stronger than your fear of not getting what you want

It's about you letting yourself be the biggest badass you can be, whatever that happens to look like for you.

Once you step away from the herd and let your true self shine, you'll probably find yourself in front of the opinion firing squad (especially if what you want to do is extraordinary and outside of everyone's comfort zones), which is why so many people run screaming from the lives they'd so love to live. Merely allowing yourself to be seen is a risk.

If you want a life you've never lived. You have to do things you've never done.

Human beings would often rather adapt to the fun-free familiar instead of risking the unknown. Until (and unless) the familiar becomes so unbearable that they're willing to risk taking the leap into the void of change.

do not shrink back from something you desire because it's too risky. Just being alive is risky. Allow yourself to experience whatever your heart desires as if this is your one and only chance to take the ride of your life.

I do not lack fear. Don't you understand? Courage is not found in lacking fear, courage is found in not allowing your fear to rule you. Think, young knight, would there bea ny courage required to face that which you do not fear?

Who dares disturb a sleeping dragon?

I don't understand," Oraeyn whispered hoarsely. "It is not for us to understand," Ina replied, her face clearing as she listened to Kaitryn. "It is for us to travel to the very edge of the light we are given." "And then?" Oraeyn asked. A radiant smile beamed across Kaitryn's face. "And then we jump with swords drawn, a battlecry on our lips, and we beat back the darkness.

We are warriors," Devrin replied. "Our people are strong, accustomed to hardship, and will weather any storm. We may bend, but we do not break. We laugh into the gale and challenge it to do its worst. I believe with every fiber of my being that Llycaelon will survive even if the whole rest of the world falls.

Eat me if thou must, good dragon, but please take me to where it is dry first!

Each and every one of these brave souls standing with him would rather die fighting for virtue and beauty than surrender to a life without either.

When all seems lost, look for Kiernan Kane.

Even in the midst of darkness, there is always a shard of light if we will but search for it hard enough and believe in it strongly enough.