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When you really want something, you will give up a million times, but your heart keeps taking you back to the starting line.
— Shannon L. Alder
They say the young are fearless, but I would rather be brave. To dive into something with no regard for the consequences is not insignificant, but to predict, recognize, and prepare for all possible consequences and still charge on is something to marvel at, something to aspire to.
— Kelton Wright, Anonymous Asked: Life Lessons from the Internet's Big Sister
Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.
— George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Grounding is taking a conscious effort to retract oneself from the world’s distractions, and then focusing on listening to isolate the voice of God within from the voice of the ego. The voice of God within is where all the answers lie.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
The saying 'flattery gets you everywhere' appalls me. If you're going to pay someone a compliment make sure it's 100% genuine or not at all.-Flattery is deception and who wants to be lied to?
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Fight for what you want because forever is a long time to be a quitter.
— Shannon L. Alder
I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great. Before I was your mother, I was a girl.
— Beth Lyon Barnett, Jazz Town
War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
There is absolutely no difference between a dreamer and a non-dreamer, if the dreamer's dream is not accompanied with faith, courage, perseverance, patience, and consistent actions. Every dream needs some consistent actions in order to give birth to success.
Life’s too short to do anything but enjoy it daily.
— Holly Elissa Bruno, The Comfort of Little Things: An Educator's Guide to Second Chances
Sure, life as we know it is enough. But life as we don’t know it? That’s where the magic awaits. That’s where second chances abound.
— Holly Elissa Bruno, The Comfort of Little Things: An Educator's Guide to Second Chances
She stood on the edge of tomorrow, a one person vanguard that believe. The city would soon follow her lead.
— Tommy McMahon, Hero of the Day
until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall always pay a higher price for our ignorance courageously.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
This is definitely the wrong time to allow fear and doubts to hold you back. Push yourself far away from your fearful past and into a blissful and prosperous future. God is your guide, protection wisdom, courage and strength. You were born to experience greatness.
True courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear control your actions. ~ from the book "Do Hard Things
— Alex & Brett Harris
A life of success demands that you never starve your dreams from the actions, courage, and faith that they consistently need.
Until one comes who is mightier,The one sprung from misery,The one who was weak,The one who was hunted,The one marked with claw and vine,The one named in secret,The one called Jezelia.
— Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
Even though love covers all things, fear is what keeps us silent and keeps words unsaid. Fear keeps us standing in one place. Eventually, when it wins, it means we never got the courage to say what we needed to say.
— Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
I don't think anyone could really know her, just as the peak of her struggle blooms, she again appearered to have held it all together when the whole world; would have thought, she'd fall Apart.
— Nikki Rowe
Stormy Llewellyn, a woman of unconventional views, believes instead that our passage through this world is intended to toughen us for the next life. She says that our honesty, integrity, courage, and determined resistance to evil are evaluated at the end of our days here, and that if we come up to muster, we will be conscripted into an army of souls engaged in some great mission in the next world. Those who fail the test simply cease to exist.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
— Maya Angelou
Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving.
— Ash Parsons
Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.
— Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October
Your young, sitting back thinking about your future, you feel heavily in your heart your desire to create your dream; no matter the tasks set before you. You hold that feeling; close to you, and you age. Your told to grow up, get a job and become successful in ways that will make someone else proud, whilst ignoring the ache inside yourself. Truth is, we're all raised to conform; damn it our parents were raised to conform, but does that mean you have to, too? No, than unravel that long lost dream inside yourself and start to create a life from it, you'll walk alone for a while, you will break down every comfort zone you've ever known; slowly transforming into a being without one, and you know what..? even if it's going to be hard, possibly some of the greatest hurdles of your time; one thing will feel certain- you'll never have felt so empowered in all your life.
— Nikki Rowe
Don't look for the ninety percent of the darkness in a person's soul. Look for the ten percent of light they have left, then lend them yours because light was meant to be shared.
— Shannon L. Alder
When positive attitudes meet with faith, courage, consistency and perseverance, miracles tend to happen.
Remember, we show courage in many ways.
— Jody Hedlund, An Uncertain Choice
I know of no better or quicker way to step into my greatness than to step out of what's familiar.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Courage rides on the coattails of confidence.
— April   White, Changing Nature
Real loved one's aren't afraid, and will suggest to you, what's in your best interest because they wouldn't want too see you suffer the consequences of, sideways, emotional impulse(s). To see you crash and burn, time after time, is the gratification of 'yes folk' lurking in your corner. You may not agree, but always consider the voice(s) that have consistently kept it real.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Courage is a requirement for facing your fears, doing things differently, and applying any new habits that align with and support your goals.
— John    Manning, The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters
Before every great reward, comes the footprints of persistency, consistency, perseverance, courage, faith and patience.
I have, and always will, respect people that keep it real no matter what. Most people say “Just keep it real with me,” but the fact of the matter is this: Most people can’t handle the truth, don’t want to accept the truth, deny the truth, or simply aren’t willing to face THEIR truth. The next time that you tell somebody to be honest with you, make sure that you mean what you say. Have the courage to pay more attention, listen, and observe. But have greater courage to acknowledge “what is” and face YOUR truth with boldness. The truth is better than a lie any day. Be fearless!
— Stephanie Lahart
Happiness is what happens when you build the level of awareness and courage to continuously identify, challenge, and replace your negative thoughts and beliefs.
The alternative to pain may be worse. When you live with an open heart, you will inevitably get hurt. The alternative of living a life closed off from experience, however, is barren. Ironically, it also still involves suffering. In fearing pain, we already feel the pain from our fear.
— Ann Brasco
Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small.
— Vironika Tugaleva
It's time for you to step up with courage and fight tirelessly to take back all that your fears and doubts have stolen from you.
Keep pushing with faith, hope and courage, for there is a very valuable prize waiting for you at the end of your struggle.
Your true destiny is desperately waiting on you to start thinking, acting, and walking with faith and courage.
Believing in your potential and calling upon your courage to change will fuel your professional growth and help you accomplish goals.
— John    Manning, The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters
At the end of the day, we all crawl, exhausted, to some doorstep. Some crawl to the doorstep of their new home, the one they have sought for miles without giving up their goal, exhausted by their determination. And others crawl to the doorstep of their prison, the one they have sought to escape, but gave up, exhausted by their determination. And we all enter our new home with a sigh of relief and put our feet up. Some rejoice. Others grow bitter. And yet, we are tired just the same.
— Vironika Tugaleva
You weren't born to live a life of failure. God brought you into this world to fight with faith and courage until each and every one of your battles is won. So by all means, always keep your mind strong, head up, and keep on fighting.
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
— Haile Selassie I
When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.
— Shannon L. Alder
When life gets hectic and you feel overwhelmed, take a moment to focus on the people and things you are most grateful for. When you have an attitude of gratitude, frustrating troubles will fall by the wayside.
— Dana Arcuri, Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity, A 50-Day Devotional
Gratitude...here at home our faith dwindlespolitical division causes tensions to kindle -we should never forgetwho stands at the door -who shields us with armorand shall forever more...
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Courage cannot be gifted to you, but it is a choice you make.
— Vishwas Chavan
At Times I Am A Flower...at times I am a flower ~singularly defined ...
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.
— Simon R. Green, Ghost of a Chance
I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
— Linda Ellerbee
The Lord doesn't always make our paths smooth sailing, but He does make it possible to rise above adversity.
— Dana Arcuri, Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity, A 50-Day Devotional
Those who lack courage are often the first to discourage.
— Robert J. Braathe
How Did You Die?Did you tackle that trouble that came your wayWith a resolute heart and cheerful?Or hide your face from the light of dayWith a craven soul and fearful?Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce,Or a trouble is what you make it.And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,But only how did you take it?You are beaten to earth? Well, well what's that?Come up with a smiling face.It's nothing against you to fall down flat,But to lie there - that's disgrace.The harder you're thrown, why the higher you bounce;Be proud of your blackened eye!It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts;It's how did you fight and why?And though you be done to death, what then?If you battled the best you could;If you played your part in the world of men,Why the critic will call it good.Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce,And whether he's slow or spry,It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts,But only, how did you die?
— Edmund Vance Cooke
Honor LostAmbulant sunshine piercedthe soot covered glass ~the feeble man wandered byin this ritual morning pass ...
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Courage is just dreams with shoes on.
— Reba Riley, Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: A Memoir of Humor and Healing in 30 Religions
When she spread her wings and leaped screeching into the air she had not the slightest doubt that every hand below her would stretch to catch her. And if one could leap from a height with no fear of falling, could one not be said to possess the secret of flight? Just like a bird, just like a god.
— David Anthony Durham, Acacia: The War with the Mein
Mary remained weeping for her friend Jesus who had been all the world to her, and whose death ad meant the loss of that world. With great courage to be alone, and great courage to love despite devastating loss, she struggled to carry on, hoping to find and rebury Jesus' missing body. Suddenly Jesus stood before her alive again, calling her name. She turned, reaching, and said "Rabbouni!" "Noli me tangere," he replied- "don't touch me." If the courage to be alone requires also the courage to love, the courage to love still does not overcome loneliness.
— Robert Cummings Neville
ANDREW: But do you think there’s a line? You know, where you discourage the next Charlie Parker from becoming Charlie Parker?FLETCHER: No. Because the next Charlie Parker would never be discouraged.
— Damien Chazelle
Courage is to act on your beliefs or opinions especially in spite of criticism.Not to act on someones idea of what your courage should be....
— Victor Antonio Hayes
You cannot learn from the mistakes of the past if you do not have the truth. You cannot make amends for mistakes if you do not have the truth. You cannot build a future if you do not have the truth. A nation cannot survive if it does not have the courage and the strength to face the truth.
— P.B. Wells
In the vast world of supreme worriorship, courage is what separates one from the crowd.
— Peprah Boasiako
Anyone can be a hero, even those who cannot!
— T.A. Cline, Archomai
Life can be the worst bully in the world,” Grandpa said and pointed a finger at Mathieu. “And you will stand up to that bully.
— Francois Houle, It Happened to Us
At least half of his hunters writhed on the ground with grubs already inside them, causing horrendous agony. These had to be helped away by terrified Ship People whose courage lay trembling in their hearts as lightly as leaves.
— Peadar Ó Guilín, The Volunteer
Your potential exceeds your beliefs. Be courageous and chose the impossible.
— Robbie Vorhaus, One Less. One More.
I could stand alone because I knew I was not alone.
— Emma Raveling, Breaker
Work, love, courage and hope,Make me good and help me cope!
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Free your mind of that which you have no control. It is not only good to do so for your mental, but your overall health. Some people must learn from experience. You can convey knowledge to them and offer to show them the way. But, that doesn't mean your wisdom will be accepted or appreciated.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Active Hope is not wishful thinking. Active Hope is not waiting to be rescued . . . . by some savior. Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we can act. We belong to this world. The web of life is calling us forth at this time. We’ve come a long way and are here to play our part.With Active Hope we realize that there are adventures in store,strengths to discover, and comrades to link arms with.Active Hope is a readiness to discover the strengthsin ourselves and in others;a readiness to discover the reasons for hopeand the occasions for love.A readiness to discover the size and strength of our hearts,our quickness of mind, our steadiness of purpose,our own authority, our love for life,the liveliness of our curiosity,the unsuspected deep well of patience and diligence,the keenness of our senses, and our capacity to lead.None of these can be discovered in an armchair or without risk.
— Joanna Macy
Loving someone doesn't mean you have to bow down to them or drop everything and run to their relentless calls. They must understand and love you enough to give you the respect that you deserve. Loving someone doesn't mean you have to shower them with gifts all the time. Give them your honesty, hope, joy, and encouragement on a daily basis.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Courage is the difference between success and failure. You must have this attitude, this is the right thing to do, so let's do it.
— Choa Kok Sui, Compassionate Objectivity - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Character Building
Matsu gathered up what little was left of the food and wrapped it back up in the furoshiki. 'I followed you and the others down to the beach yesterday morning. I wondered if you might try to find your way to peace as she did.''I couldn't,' I began to cry, turning away in shame. Then Matsu leaned over close to my ear. He smelled of sweat and the earth as he whispered, 'It takes greater courage to live.
— Gail Tsukiyama, The Samurai's Garden
Build a solid courage behind what you believe you can do. Your dreams may drift and fall, but when your courage is strong and still, you can’t shift; you’ll lift your dreams again!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Face your monster boldly, the whole world will cheer you on. Run from your monster fearfully, Heaven will cry over your pieces.
— Jessiqua Wittman, A Memoir of Mercy
By strengthening our compassion, we give fuel to our courage and determination.
— Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone, Active Hope
if people do not understand you outrightly, do not worry; understand people outrightly and act with wisdom, courage and understanding
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The crocodiles that frighten from crossing the rivers of our destinies are easily drowned with personal confidence but not team courage. It means you owe it to yourself to defeat your own crocodiles and cross over to the other side!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Life is a test of courage, It's only worth if you can learn to withstand your most trying times and remain stable, steady, simple and strong in different places and spaces.
— Auliq Ice
Remember always where the dreaming ends and the being begins. Draw a line for everything you care about and then step over it.
— Tag Cavello, Double Dutch and Other Stories
I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit of making things great.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
In life
—  a mile deep with stress is a mile deep in pain and that needs courage.
The lift is about SPEED and COMFORT, but the stairs are about CERTAINTY! The lift may go wrong but stairs seldom do, you can always take the stairs. They are BOUND to take you UP and to the END as long as you continue to climb!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.
— Shannon L. Alder
He could silence me, but Rob had no power over my mind
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
A lot of people think that being a Gallagher Girl means not being afraid of anything. Actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. It's not about ignoring fear. It's about facing it, knowing the risks and the costs and sacrificing safety and security anyway.
— Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time
Stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person. Half of the world will like you and the other half will hate you, despite what you say or do. Christ knew this truth, but he did his life mission anyways.
— Shannon L. Alder
We might be hollow, but we're brave
— Lorde
The leader must have both – the courage to take the people to a daring destination and the humility to selflessly serve others on the journey.
— Cheryl A. Bachelder, Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others
For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.
— Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
That is what love does, it upstages fear.
— Mia Hollow
Only a demon would prevent a person from saving lives or fulfilling their life mission. There is no reasoning with the devil. Stand with pride because your heart is filled with the goodness of helping others, while theirs is filled with helping themselves.
— Shannon L. Alder
Just underneath your breaking point lies your true strength.
— Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso
You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle---Gods.
— Shannon L. Alder
To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.
— Bill Maher
It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.
— Shannon L. Alder
In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn’t take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.
— David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
When the future is fogged and ahead lays opportunity but risk, it is better to tread a careful path through the uncertainty than to wait for the mist to clear, if it ever does.
— Anonymous
Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win.
— Auliq Ice
We've made our decisions, We've taken our choices, What's left, is only a hand-full of emotions.
— Auliq Ice
Continuous understanding goes with love, courage, respect, discovery and acceptance of mistakes.
— Auliq Ice
Boldly they rode and well,Into the jaws of Death,Into the mouth of hell.
— Alfred Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade
And an even worse example, I think, than the cheapening of the word CHARITY is the new newspaper cheapening of the word COURAGE.Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a play or a novel which causes a flutter and exchange of compliments in Chelsea and Chiswick and a faint thrill in Streatham and Surbiton, is described as "daring," though nobody on earth knows what danger it is that he dares. I speak, of course, of terrestrial dangers; or the only sort of dangers he believes in. To be extravagantly flattered by everybody he considers enlightened, and rather feebly rebuked by everybody he considers dated and dead, does not seem so appalling a peril that a man should be stared at as a heroic warrior and militant martyr because he has had the strength to endure it.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Thing
He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world. Though hast my sword. Strike. Death shall be a sweet rest to me. Thraldom, not death, should terrify me.
— E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros
They told me, I am not good enough, not strong enough, not tall enough, not smart enough. They told me I can not win, but they did not tell me how to lose. They taught me a lot of things, but You can not teach courage. That is why I succeed.
— Csaba Gabor - B
I am not without fear, but courage is taking action despite the fear. Knowing what you want, what you are meant to do, and proceeding despite any knots in your stomach or rocks stuck in your throat. It is walking boldly into the unknown with your chin held high... even if it quivers.
— Rachel  Harris, A Tale of Two Centuries
I feel like people around me are betters voting on the wrong horse in the race. I am that horse, always failing to make others win.
— Austin Kelly
I felt afraid. No one would know that, not Mother and not Mike. I’d keep the fear pushed down inside of me, and no one would know it was there. “I’m awfully happy,” I wrote. I was. Awfully happy and awfully in love, and tomorrow I was marrying Mike.
— Benedict Freedman, Mrs. Mike
In hard times nothing is visible life seems to beat you down, with courage hit the problems ball will be in your court.
— Kishore Bansal
It is about time to see within us a real change and let it happen as we have made before we start.
— Auliq Ice
I'm on the edge of a precipice.
— Mabe
At dusk, Wakefield “had my most important thought that day.” Wading into chest-deep water at first light that morning, “I found that my legs would hardly hold me up. I thought I was a coward.” Then he had discovered that his sea bags with their explosives had filled with water and he was carrying well over 100 pounds. He had used his knife to cut the bags and dump the water, then moved on to do his job. “When I had thought for a moment that I wasn’t going to be able to do it, that I was a coward, and then found out that I could do it, you can’t imagine how great a feeling that was. Just finding out, yes, I could do what I had volunteered to do.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
Sometimes is not in the battle field where truth and courage only shows. You can win in any place with the help of your courage.
— Auliq Ice
Time seemed to stand still as she noticed three droplets of blood splattered on the Indian's cheek. Crimson red, she thought. Three crimson red droplets. The color of the rubescent calla lilies in her mother's garden. Her mother had explained the wine colored flower meant strength, and passionate courage. How fitting, Zee thought as shock of the reality around her began to set in.
— Basil Pearl, Middlesettlements
Scarlett O'Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure.
— Alexandra Ripley, Scarlett
If you need to know courage then you personally is the courage you discovered by yourself, try harder things and it will show up.
— Auliq Ice
To demonstrate integrity, a person must have the courage to consistently adhere to a strong ethical code, even in difficult situations.
— Scott K. Edinger, The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company
Integrity is the source of new solutions and innovations
—  courage is a means of halting progress down a wrong road.
Despite what you’ve read, your sadness is not beautiful. No one will see you in the bookstore, curled up with your Bukowski, and want to save you. Stop waiting for a salvation that will not come from the grey-eyed boy looking for an annotated copy of Shakespeare,for an end to your sadness in Keats.He coughed up his lungs at 25, and flowery words cannot conceal a life barely lived. Your life is fragile, just beginning, teetering on the violent edge of the world. Your sadness will bury you alive, and you are the only one who can shovel your way out with hardened hands and ragged fingernails, bleeding your despair into the unforgiving earth.Darling, you see, no heroes are coming for you. Grab your sword, and don your own armor.
— Emily Palermo
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
— Nelson Mandela
You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it.
— Shannon L. Alder
Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego.
— Shannon L. Alder
Only the great warriors fall down from their horses
—  one would not fall who rides a donkey cart.
Deep in the recesses of our mind is a trophy shelf on which sits many bottles. Each bottle contains the pain of a hurt that we have overcome and for which we have a scar - our badge of courage. Occasionally, a memory will knock the bottle off the shelf, the cork will come out and the pain is back. What we should notice each time this happens is that the pain is less intense, it takes less time to return it to the bottle and back onto the shelf and that our scar - our battle wound becomes stronger.
— Susan Flusche
We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily — as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable.
— Maya Angelou
It is during a time of failure we bury a past and resurrect a future. Becoming righteous, discerning, and wise are our most prized possessions and across every cultures-this is the greatest feat of all human life.
— Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK
Who we are is determined by the actions we take, the words we choose to say, the people we love. And for some that love brings hope. For others, courage. And for some, the luckiest of individuals, that love brings with it a knowledge of contentment, an understanding of strength, and the reward of uncovering exactly who you are.
— Rebecca Harris
Hope is a believe in God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
What do you have that the Lord didn’t provide?What do you need that the Lord can’t provide?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Be the hero of your children’s story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.
— Shannon L. Alder
I thought I would die without you, in reality I was reborn...
— Seja Majeed, The Forgotten Tale of Larsa
Even the Sun gets tired of rising, but he does it out of love for the Earth...
— Seja Majeed, The Forgotten Tale of Larsa
This tub is for washing your courage...When you are born your courage is new and clean. You are brave enough for anything: crawling off of staircases, saying your first words without fearing that someone will think you are foolish, putting strange things in your mouth. But as you get older, your courage attracts gunk and crusty things and dirt and fear and knowing how bad things can get and what pain feels like. By the time you're half-grown, your courage barely moves at all, it's so grunged up with living. So every once in awhile, you have to scrub it up and get the works going or else you'll never be brave again. Unfortunately, there are not many facilities in your world that provide the kind of services we do. So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of a spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true....This tub is for washing your wishes...For the wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to catch the world in its changing and change with it....Lastly, we must wash your luck. When souls queue up to be born, they all leap up at just the last moment, touching the lintel of the world for luck. Some jump high and can seize a great measure of luck; some jump only a bit and snatch a few loose strands. Everyone manages to catch some. If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money, and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life. If you know how to look, you can examine the kneecaps of a human and tell how much luck they have left. No bath can replenish luck that has been spent on avoiding an early death by automobile accident or winning too many raffles in a row. No bath can restore luck lost through absentmindedness and overconfidence. But luck withered by conservative, tired, riskless living can be pumped up again--after all, it is only a bit thirsty for something to do.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Live for what you love, and die for what you're unwilling to live without...
— Seja Majeed, The Forgotten Tale of Larsa
You will never develop courage if you don’t stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but heroes always are.
— Shannon L. Alder
We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves...
— Seja Majeed, The Forgotten Tale of Larsa
Courage is God's way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.
— Shannon L. Alder
Keep holding on, stay strong. If the world gives up, just keep fighting.
— TheKatAttack
Kindness gives courage.
— Debasish Mridha
Your kindness becomes your courage.
— Debasish Mridha
Always do good for others because when people try to drag your name through the mud, God will always bring a storm to wash it away.
— Shannon L. Alder
It would be nice if the story ended differently - if he had burst into tears and professed his love for me; if he had said the same three words back and hugged me; if he had given it thought and then asked if we could try a relationship. But you know what? I said those three words to a boy who didn’t love me back, at least not in that way. He casually dropped a “love you” later on, and in a platonic ‘you have impacted my life’ way, he was telling the truth. But I knew. He had given it thought, and we were not on the same page. I built up all this courage to say “I love you” for the very first time, and I said those words to a person that couldn’t reciprocate them. But guess what? I don’t regret any of it.
— Stephen Lovegrove, How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human
Overcoming obstacles requires commitment and strength. Despite all odds, face each journey with courage, each struggle with accomplishment, and each challenge with victory.
— Lorna Jackie Wilson, Black Butterfly: The Journey - The Victory
Courage make you strong, to become better person Show kind feelings to others.
— Kishore Bansal
One of the first lessons life teaches us is that on these occasions of back-chat between the delicately-natured, a man should retire into the offing, curl up in a ball, and imitate the prudent tactics of the opossum, which, when danger is in the air, pretends to be dead, frequently going to the length of hanging out crêpe and instructing its friends to gather round and say what a pity it all is.
— P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!
The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened.
— Neel Burton
We can never achieve and succeed without first making excellence second nature.
— Jolene Church
Because courage, survival, love—all these things didn’t live in one man. They lived in them all or they died and every man with them; they had come to believe that to abandon one man was to abandon themselves.
— Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Without courage, little is done and accomplished.
— Auliq Ice
Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.
— Jonathan V. Last
What I’ve yet to realize is that each time I work to avoid that which I fear, I have in that very same action forfeited the blessings that my fear blinded me to. And I’ve yet to realize that with God, the blessings will always and forever eclipse whatever I fear despite how absolutely imposing those fears might be
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
One of the best confidence builder is experience.
— Jaymin Shah
You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.
— Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
I hope you know that you've given me the courage to change. I hope you know that who you are is who you choose to be, and that whispers behind your back don't define you. You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.
— Taylor Swift
All the things that people do in order to show that they don't need anybody... meanwhile, all they really want to do is say, "Please keep me." We all want to be kept. The problem is we are too afraid to let anyone know about it. What are these fragile things in our hearts that have so much fear of being broken?
— C. JoyBell C.
Never tell her that something is impossible, because she'll kill herself proving you wrong.
— Kate Lattey, Dare to Dream
I sweat terror, Robyn! I'm scared every single second about every single goddamned thing. I worry obsessively about being buried under an avalanche of fear. Jesus, Robyn, I'm scared like only the truly crazy ca
— Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
Defeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way.
— Tom Althouse
Real is...just being you. It's not letting yourself be defined by other people's opinions of you, of who they think you are, or what they expect you to be. It's refusing to let them squash you into the box they've built for you, and just being yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. Because you're never going to matter to everyone, just like everyone's never going to matter to you. So you choose the people whose opinions you care about, and you be real for them.
— Kate Lattey, Dream On
Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.
— Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter
A great leader fights with great adversity, suffers greatly, but courageously, and never forget to help others is his ultimate duty.
— Debasish Mridha
Greatness demands great courage.
— Debasish Mridha
Gather the courage to encourage yourself. Your self-motivation will energize you to dream of bigger ambitions to accomplish in life!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
From kindness comes courage.
— Debasish Mridha
For a leader, courage, love, and passion for service are the virtues of life.
— Debasish Mridha
If anyone doesn't agree with you, the truth is on your side.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free.
— Swami Vivekananda
She didn't know what would happen because of this. But she knew that today, she would hurt no one. She threw back her blankets and though only of today.
— Kristin Cashore
But the Warrior never allows himself to be discouraged.
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light
I want to stand on the foundation of ethics and morals when the world around me would assault that foundation with all of its collective might, and in the standing I want to stand on the truth that that foundation will stand long after everything that has assailed it has itself has ceased to stand.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is no shame in asking for help
—  it is one the most courageous things you’ll ever do and will lead to greater connection with those around you.
I want to stand on the truth that God has designed us to stand, and that the opportunity to stand is the opportunity to live exuberantly and gloriously.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left of our own accord to choose one or the other.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You may need courage to say "NO", But you must be brave enough to say "YES" and not to do it
— RD
No matter your circumstance, there is hope, strength, and courage to be found.
— Laura   Lane, Two Mothers, One Prayer: Facing your Child's Cancer with Hope, Strength, and Courage
it’s not bravery to walk through the jungle with a lion’s escort, but it is with a rabbit
— Fazli Rrezja
Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.
— Susan Taylor
To live safely within the realm of possibility is to know nothing other than that which is possible. To live boldly within the realm of God is to experience everything that’s impossible.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I think you're wrong.""Well I think you're naive," Hayley snapped."Maybe," Marley conceded, starting to walk away. "But I'd rather be that than a bully like you.
— Kate Lattey, Dream On
It’s not enough to wish, dream, hope. Even children know this. We must set sail into the sea of uncertainty. We must meet fear face-to-face. We must take our dreams as maps for a greater journey. Dreams, to come true, need a good story. So go live one.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Always remember that those with very important paths to fulfill will always be forced by life into the fear of the very things that their true paths consist of, in order to prevent the destiny from ever happening. Or perhaps, in order to strengthen the courage of the heart, because courage is to look into a direction, make a choice and to actually do that which you are afraid of, and what is destiny if it is not fulfilled by a heart full of courage and brawn?
— C. JoyBell C.
You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind.
— Ramananda Prasad, The Bhagavad Gita
Courage is like magic, courage vanishes crisis.
— Amit Kalantri
I was thinking, and realised how simple my goal has been— just to be me! I didn't want to be a good person and change the world; I just wanted to be me! Against all odds, I wanted to make sure that I turned out as myself and not into my family, my society, my religion... I wanted to make sure that I turned into me! But then after that first realisation, I made a second realisation; and that is, that becoming yourself against all odds is probably the highest attainment you could ever dream of or hope for! After all, the minute we are born, we are born into a world that isn't interested in making us who we are; but rather, is interested in making us who they think we are supposed to be! It is a most courageous act to become yourself, no matter what! And you can move mountains and change the world without trying to! As long as you fight for you!
— C. JoyBell C.
Everybody’s scared, but if you don’t let your fears stop you, that’s bravery.
— Leslie Feinberg
Courage is the difference between success and failure. You must have this attitude, this is the right thing to do.
— Choa Kok Sui, Compassionate Objectivity - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Character Building
I never saw it coming; I never thought you’d leave, but baby what you gave me was the courage to find me.
— Lorii Myers
Fear not the unknown. It is a sea of possibilities.
— Tom Althouse
Of course you have passions and talents. Of course you have some purpose in the world. Your emotions are guiding you towards it. Each time you discover something that you like or something that you hate, you discover yourself. Everyone can do this. If you didn't like some things more than others, you'd be living in a sewer eating grass. More often than not, it's those things you think are too weird, too personal, or too imperfect that you must share. The world does not await your perfection. It awaits your courage and your honesty. Let yourself be seen.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Courage, self-reliance and decisiveness are the main traits that define a man.
— Ogwo David Emenike
If you don't know what it is you're looking for you're NEVER going to find it. You have to be clear on what it is you're seeking.
— Germany Kent
Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
What if I have nothing left to fight for? I say, my voice shaking."Then you fight until you find something to fight for. But the moment you stop fighting the current, the moment you surrender to it, that's when you are truly lost.
— Sherry D. Ficklin
We can overcome the uncertainties in life with courage and hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
He was one of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good feelings. What little he told of his personal life vouched for acts of kindness and a capacity for affection that no one in our times dares own to.
— Albert Camus, The Plague
Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.
— Germany Kent
It was strange how fear had gone,now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.
— John Buchan
Most attribute the domain of night to evil because they can't see. People fear the shadows of the night because shadows represent the unknown, and the unknown is frightening. They assume evil lurks behind every shadow, in every corner not illuminated. But their fear of the unknown is often what really terrifies them. They find comfort seeing in the daylight for that reason, but the irony is they are often more blinded by their comfort than by the shadow of night. It's a pity. If they could overcome their fear of the unknown they might realize that the unknown is not evil, it is simply an opportunity waiting to be explored. The night is no more a domain of evil than the daylight, both were created good, both have evil lurking in them. When you can overcome your fear, the night becomes a domain of beauty interlaced with danger, and that is exciting!
— M.R. Laver, A Tale of Mist and Shadow
When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.
— John Buchan
Embrace courageously the challenging beauty of life.
— Angelica Hopes, Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul
Fear not the unknown. For it is a sea of possibilities.
— Tom Althouse
There comes a time, you have to stop running, stop pretending, and just be the man you were meant to be. It doesn't matter what it costs, because to not be that man, that’ll cost you your soul. What am I going to do? I’m going to love him until the stars fall out of the sky.
— Sarah Black, The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari
It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.
— R.L. LaFevers, Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
The soul of a man is strong enough to withstand any adversity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
live.fight.then you are allowed to die
— Nataly Braven
The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.
— Gabor Maté
LET’S GO BACK HOMEI can't think about you,Without smiling.What I wouldn’t give,To go back there,Take you in my arms,Kiss you, And tell you,"I still love you."It's been three decades now,And still your smile's with me,Your wave goodbye, The love in your eyes, And everything else you gave me,Before that highway fog swept in,And stole your spirit away.Oh- to return by your side again, Fish beside the Pleasant Hill Dam,Hike through the Mayer's woods, Hang out on your big hill,Sleep naked in your twin bed,Fill your room with laughter- And marijuana smoke.You returned home-And I traveled on down the road,Found new loves,Safely took them under my wing,And deeply into my heart.But you know, as I do-This wasn’t always possible.I didn’t always have the fire- The courage to stand tall,The joy to expand, Nor the love to give deeply.These were all your gifts--To me.Someday-When I close my eyes for good,And cry out- "Lord- forgive me for I have sinned-"I'll joyously return by your side,Take you into my arms, Kiss you, And tell you,"I still love you.
— Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love