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Courage Quotes
"If she answered, he could not hear it, and he certainly couldn't see her, so he went. First he crawled the rocks one by one, one by one, till his hands touched shore and the nursing sound of the sea was behind him. He felt around, crawled off and then stood up. Breathing heavily with his mouth open he took a few tentative steps. The pebbles made him stumble and so did the roots of trees. He threw out his hands to guide and steady his going. By and by he walked steadier, now steadier. The mist lifted and the trees stepped back a bit as if to make the way easier for a certain kind of man. Then he ran. Lickety-split. Lickety-split. Looking neither to the left nor to the right. Lickety-split. Lickety-split. Lickety-lickety-lickety-split."
"Leaving what is safe so you can be more, Derek said. The cage is what the bird knows; the sky is all the things he still wants to do even if it's a risk."
"I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my power to frustrate your plans and devices.' And then she added, with feeling, 'Idiot."
"Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you."
"Find courage to overcome the circumstance."
"Breaking into the house in the middle of the night just wasn't his style. He did his best work in plain view, and, usually, his tongue was doing most."
"Face your fears or they will climb over your back."
"Your ultimate goal should be partners with your ultimate fear."
"With every day that passed, the boy's heart became more and moresilent. It no longer wanted to know about things of the past or future; it was content simply tocontemplate the desert, and to drink with the boy from the Soul of the World. The boy and his heart hadbecome friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other. When his heart spoke to him, it was to provide a stimulus to the boy, and to give him strength, becausethe days of silence there in the desert were wearisome. His heart told the boy what his strongest qualitieswere: his courage in having given up his sheep and in trying to live out his destiny, and his enthusiasmduring the time he had worked at the crystal shop."
"It is the ant, not the lion, which the elephant fears."
"I don't think I can.. I know I will."
"A threat leads to nothing if it is not accepted. In fighting the good fight, you should never forget that. Just as you should never forget that both attacking and fleeing are part of the fight. What isn't a part of the fight is becoming paralyzed by fear."
"So friends, get out of your comfort zone. Don't be afraid of pain. Confront your pains."
"But the Warrior never allows himself to be discouraged."
"Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!"
"Don't quench the courageous spirit you begun with, you'll still need it when the going gets tough and all things seem impossible on your journey!"
"It is in the stormiest skies that eagles find their true calling."
"Fear makes people speechless."
"We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer distinction between the true and the false, between the man of the future and the cowardly gods you revere."
"Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through."
"Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it."
"Bravery is not an act of intelligence, it is just selfishness and stupidity."
"The confidence God gives is the courage to dare a greater life."
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