Quotes about Courage

Growing up, I held back a lot in fear of looking silly or thinking I wouldn't make it.

If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

The opposite of fear, Dienekes said, is love.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime.

Better to be in the arena getting stomped by the bulls, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

Let us be, then, warriors of the heart, and enlist in our inner cause the virtues we have acquired through blood and sweat in the sphere of conflict—courage, patience, selflessness, loyalty, fidelity, self-command, respect for elders, love of our comrades (and of the enemy), perseverance, cheerfulness in adversity and a sense of humor, however terse or dark.

The will to victory may be demonstrated in places other than actual battle.

Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

His was not, I could see now, the heroism of an Achilles. He was not a superman who waded invulnerably into the slaughter, single-handedly slaying the foe by myriads. He was just a man doing a job. A job whose primary attribute was self-restraint and self-composure, not for his own sake, but for those whom he led by his example.

When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

On the field of the Self stand a knight and a dragon.   You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.