Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace." "I thought that if you had courage you always had it.". . . "Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.

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

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.'

Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review, when I publish a book...then, I think of my grandfather. My grandfather was this strong, tough Basque who would never bend....What would he do? Well, he would go ahead, close his eyes, and drive forward. You do it and the spirit that is within you....is there.

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

Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

Let's not be afraid of anything that can't really hurt us.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

I don't feel fear anymore, in any form.

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

Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn't exist, if you believe it doesn't.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

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

We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy-mate rial or spiritual. We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.