In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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Quotes tagged ‘Courage’
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Don’t wish me happiness — I don’t expect to be happy all the time; it’s gotten beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor — I will need them all.
It is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
— Rumi, amazon.com
Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought.
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
Even though love covers all things, fear is what keeps us silent and keeps words unsaid. Fear keeps us standing in one place. Eventually, when it wins, it means we never got the courage to say what we needed to say.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
— Seneca, amazon.com
Creativity takes courage.
Don’t be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.
My boldness terrifies me.
Don’t be scared. Don’t give them anything, not even your fear.
Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.
You have to die a few times first, till you can really live.
You are almost there. A little courage and faith and that life will come.
A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.