To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
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.
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.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
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.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if you have to dig a little.
Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
All happiness depends on courage and work.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
I believe that courage is the sum of strength and wisdom. You take away wisdom from the equation - courage may turn to rage.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.