Courage
733 quotes: 11 by Keith Craft, 722 from other voices.
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- So, as we read in the previous chapters: Man can only vanquish fear by walking up to the thing he is afraid of.
- So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look like an idiot over the short term.
- So the next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
- So what are you afraid of? What is holding you back? What is it that stands in your way? Do it!
- Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.
- Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
- Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.
- Sometimes you have to stop being scared and just go for it. Either it will work out, or it won’t. That’s life. Do it scared!
- Sooner or later, you will need the courage to be disliked.
- Speak your truth, even if your voice shakes.
- Stand to the battle and see the test through, Pay all you have in endurance and might for it; If it's worth while and a good thing to do, Then it is worth all it costs in the fight for it.
- Start before you're ready. Don't prepare, begin.
- Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling. Just start.
- Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.
- Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.
- Stress happens when something you care about is at stake. It’s not a sign to run away – it’s a sign to step forward.
- Success begins when you push beyond your comfort zone, when you embrace the pain, and when you never back down from the challenge.
- Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.
- Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
- Swing for the fences! Go for your dreams! Do it now... Take a Swing!
- [T]ruth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is.
- Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
- Take the risk. If you succeed you’ll be happy. If you fail you’ll be wiser.
- The achievement of a hard duty is a great abolisher of difficulties.
- The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
- The bars of life at which we fret, That seem to prison and control, Are but the doors of daring, set Ajar before the soul.
- The beautiful thing about fear is, when you run to it, it runs away.
- The best hearts are ever the bravest.Laurence SterneCommonly attributed
- The best help is not to bear the troubles of others for them, but to inspire them with courage and energy to bear their burdens for themselves and meet the difficulties of life bravely.
- The best lightning-rod for your protection is your own spine.
- The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.
- The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try.
- The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
- The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.
- The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
- The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
- The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
- The brave man thinks of himself last of all.