Quotes about Courage

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few.

Chodte za svojim stastim a vesmir vam otvori dvere aj tam, kde dovtedy boli iba mury.

The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.

The boy answers, Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt. Indra says, I ask. Teach. (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)

The passage to fulfillment lies between the perils of desire and fear.

To evolve out of this position of psychological immaturity to the courage of self-responsibility and assurance requires a death and a resurrection. That's the basic motif of the universal hero's journey—leaving one condition and finding the source of life to bring you forth into a richer or mature condition.

What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, in the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.