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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Sep 10, 2025
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
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.
It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.
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.
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
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.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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.
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.
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 not the absence of fear. Courage is action in spite of fear. Courageous people never really overcome their fears. They just become determined to push through them and to use that adrenaline to their advantage.
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.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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.'
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.