Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.
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.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if you have to dig a little.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Fear cuts deeper than swords.
Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.
Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.