Quotes about Courage

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

Carter once told me that we shouldn't fear putting the past behind us. He said that God is about doing new things—creating beauty out of the ashes of despair and defeat.

day. You lost your man and

So tell me more about Miss Hannah. Is she your gal?" Tyler asked. "Hardly. She's no one's gal that I can see. She's her own woman through and through." Tyler laughed. "I haven't seen anyone so pretty since leavin' to join up.

The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.

Rather than avoiding a feeling, your goal should be to move toward the emotion, into it, and eventually through it.

Suppose you are a little, nimble guy being chased by a big, fat, bully. You open a door and find yourself in a staircase. Do you go up or down? I say up. The bully can probably run downstairs as fast as you can. Going upstairs his bulk will be more of a disadvantage. Running upstairs is hard for you but even harder for him.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.

We pretend to be strong because we are weak.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.