courage - not just to travel but face life

New courage quotes added 22 June, 2011
Choose courage instead of letting your fear choose your future for you.

Melissa Kirk

A great deal of talent is lost in this world for want of a little courage.

Sydney Smith

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King Jr (see works by and about Martin Luther King)

Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.

Brendan Francis [Behan] (1923-1964) Irish Author

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Raymond Lindquist

Don’t be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be.

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love (see works by Elizabeth Gilbert)

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.

Anonymous

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

Rabindranath Tagore (see works by Tagore)

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Anais Nin (see works by Anais Nin)

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

Wayne Dyer (see works by Wayne Dyer)

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Roman Rollard

Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and we can scarcely see the way.

Charles B Newcomb

Making the decision to have a child – it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Elizabeth Stone

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author (see works by Samuel Johnson)

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who
stand and watch.

Jean Luc Godard

Every man has an obscure respect for courage in others, especially if it is moral courage, the rarest and most difficult sort of bravery... It makes the very brute understand that this man is more than a man.

Passage from Life of Christ

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

Don’t be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Buckminster Fuller (see works by and about Buckminster Fuller)

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.

Jack Dempsey

Hear me, four quarters of the world – a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.