Courageous Living Quotes

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.

'Wild at Heart' simply came out of my journey as a man and then my work with men.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader.

Because life constantly poses challenges, living demands courage

So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have — and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth — you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear...

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

If you don't conquer your fear, you are going to miss out on some great things in life.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

You can never begin to live until you dare to die.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.

To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

Live dangerously and you live right.

To live greatly, you have to risk greatly.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.