Courage Quotes - Page 6

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.

If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life.