Sandra Cisneros Quotes

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

Forget yourself! Think courage.

We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

Without fear there cannot be courage.

Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being.

Courage. By beginning the journey with that word and continuing with faith in God, you will arrive wherever you need to arrive.

What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred.

He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.

I ain't scared of the fall / I've felt the ground before.

Courage is more important than confidence

Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.

I think I'm known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It's not that I'm not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don't back away - I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid.

To me fearless isn't not having fears, it's not that you're not afraid of anything. I think that being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.

Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.