Courage
733 quotes: 11 by Keith Craft, 722 from other voices.
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- True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.
- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
- Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Try the thing you don’t think you’re quite ready for.
- Turn your back on fear, and your face to whatever may come.
- Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
- Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage.Brené BrownSourced
- Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
- Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.
- Walk up to the lion, and he will disappear; run away and he runs after you.
- We are sure to get the better of Fortune if we do but grapple with her.
- We call someone leader not because they are in charge but because they have the courage to go first. To risk first. To trust first. First into the unknown.
- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
- We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.
- We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
- We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.
- We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
- We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
- We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
- We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
- What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.
- What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
- What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
- What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out — not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.John F. KennedySourced
- What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.
- What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
- What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- What you'll tend to avoid doing is probably the most important thing you need to do because it'll probably be the most daunting and the most potentially successful thing you could be doing and that's usually out of people's comfort zone.
- Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
- Whatever it is that you’re trying to do with your life, stop being cautious. One of my superpowers is simply that I’m not afraid to be bad at things that I desperately want to be good at.
- Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
- When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
- When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- When the fear of being a fool is stronger than the hope of being a genius, the status quo thrives.
- When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
- When you face a choice between being polite and being honest, err on the side of the truth. It’s better to be disliked but respected than to be liked but disrespected. In the long run, the people we trust the most are those who have the courage to be sincere.
- When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.
- Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.