Richard Bach Quotes

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

Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

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

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

I hope this brings someone else the courage they need to face whatever challenge is before them.

This world is not for cowards.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.

To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

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.

Disabilities and misfortune can make you stronger.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'