Quotes about Courage

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

It's a dangerous business, going out your door.

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

Let the hard things in life break you. Let them effect you. Let them change you. Let these hard moments inform you. Let this pain be your teacher. The experiences of your life are trying to tell you something about yourself. Don't cop out on that. Don't run away and hide under your covers. Lean into it.

Despair itself can be hopeful if it is honest.

There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.

Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)

But if scandal arise from truth, the scandal should be borne rather than the truth be set aside