Courage
- Leap and the net will appear. Zen saying
- We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success. Henry David Thoreau
- All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. Henry Miller
- Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying I will try again tomorrow. Mary Anne Radmacher
- Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you. Mary Tyler Moore
- The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. R. G. Ingersoll
- What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? Unknown
- You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
- The way to develop selfconfidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan
- Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. Orison Swett Marden
- When in doubt, risk it. Holbrook Jackson
- To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
- Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. Frederick B. Wilcox
- God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr
- Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength. Author Unknown
- Freedom lies in being bold. Robert Frost
- Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho
- Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tse
- You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself. Alan Alda
- I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it’s an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I’ve learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them. Sasha Azevedo
- A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. William Shedd
- It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
- It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Alan Cohen
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anais Nin
- Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. Orison Swett Marden
- One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou
- Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. Dorothy Thompson
- Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny. Peter Senge
- The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Charles DuBois
- To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
- We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller
- With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. Keshavan Nair
- You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. Epicurus
- A mind focused on doubt and fear cannot focus on the journey to victory. Mike Jones
- Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. Dan Rather
- Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway. John Wayne
- Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
- Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. Arthur Koestler
- Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. André Gide
- Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot
- Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon
- Courage is not the absence of fear, it is taking a step forward when you are afraid. Ken McGrath
- Courage is not the towering oak
That sees storms come and go,
It is the fragile blossom
That opens in the snow Alice MacKenzie Swaim - Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? Frank Scully
