Quotes About Courage

Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.

Rita Williams-Garcia

Once you give an ultimatum, you have to mean it. You can't pull back. Sometimes your 'or else' is all the power you have and you can't be afraid to do what you threaten to do.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!

Enjoy being bold, and if that is scary at first, marvel at your ability to walk through fear.

Courageous people begin the journey knowing only the destination.

Leaders typically don't follow the crowd, that is unless they're trying to escape a burning building.

Stare your fears down and they will eventually disappear.

The best captains endure the most turbulence and greatest storms.

When beset with doubt in troubled times, and those about you will understand if you come unglued, stay the ground and face the challenge. Fore when you stand alone to confront life's highest mountains, the next shall be easier to climb.

Your legacy among family and friends shall resemble a blank page while you remain silent when others threaten our constitutional values.

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation

have been swept.

Rob Lloyd Jones

I must have looked like she did: cut and bruised, covered in sand and dust and rubble. But still we both grinned. "You just killed a giant monster snake," Pan said. "We did," I replied.

Um exército de ovelhas liderado por um leão derrotaria um exército de leões liderado por uma ovelha". Hooyah.

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

To enter into that karaoke mindset, you have to leave behind all your notions of good or bad, right or wrong, in tune or out of tune. The kara in the word karaoke is the same as the one in karate, which means 'empty hand.' They're both 'empty' arts because you have no weapons and no musical instruments to hide behind--only courage, your heart, and your will to inflict pain.

When you want to start living, what do you do? How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to blow?