Quotes About Courage

Act as if were impossible to fail.

Perseverance and audacity generally win.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I would rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.

Write to your fear.

A cross is a poor shade tree in earthquake weather.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Pick yourself up,Dust yourself off,Start all over again.

It struck her as extremely characterless for any human being to sit around waiting for execution. It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. The list of her small rebellions was endless. Surely there was room for one more?

If the next blood to be spilled here was his, he would bear it as a samurai should. For death, he reminded himself, comes to all. The only way to meet it is with courage. ~ Seikei

If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.

You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.

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The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

But Mrs. Brockington, old, alone, almost crippled by rheumatism, had faith and courage. She had more. She had a warm serenity, and when Ellen was with her, she almost had it too. For goodness is catching. Mrs. Brockington was further on the road Ellen wanted to travel, and because Mrs. Brockington had got there, Ellen felt she might get there too.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

It's not easy being easy.

Listen to your fears: they have a lot to teach you about yourself.

Let's remember to honor the courage it takes to ask for support, to share vulnerable feelings.

We dream of a time and a place where we will all be free to publicly declare our love, for whomever we love, however we love them.