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We find our voice, we lose our voice, we retrieve it, honor it, and hopefully, learn how to share it with others and stand in the center of our power. Translation is a theme. Fear and courage are a theme.
Sep 10, 2025
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
Getting to know the feel of both emotional energies, fear and courage, will enable you to choose courage more consciously. You don't want fear's energy running rampant in your beautiful self, even if you know its root. Whenever you're afraid, invoke courage to transform fear, the formula for freedom.
I think, especially in this time in the world, there is very much a choice between fear and courage, and we all have to pick the courageous route.
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. 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.
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
Courage is not the absence of fear...
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.