Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

My heroes are not necessarily people of great ability but ones who did what I think I could not.

Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right.

We've all been in that metaphoric place, having to scream out what you want in the face of your fears.

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.