courage – Nimble Quotes

FEAR QUOTES

FEAR QUOTES

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’
‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up”
― Veronica Roth

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dali

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
― Jim Morrison

“Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”
― Emma Donoghue

“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
― Leigh Bardugo

“Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.”
― Paulo Coelho

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
― Nelson Mandela

“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
― Rainbow Rowell

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
― Dan Brown

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….”
― Erica Jong

“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”
― Cassandra Clare

“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Sigmund Freud

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
― Veronica Roth

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”
― Paulo Coelho

“We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.”
― Leigh Bardugo

“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.”
― Angie Thomas

“Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”
― Frederick Buechner

“Because fear kills everything,” Mo had once told her. “Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
― Cornelia Funke

“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
― Fred Rogers

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
― Stanley Kubrick

“There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”
― Francis Chan

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
― Voltaire

“It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”
― Michael Crichton

“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.”
― Cassandra Clare

“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”
― John Steinbeck

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Bertrand Russell

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PERSEVERANCE QUOTES

PERSEVERANCE QUOTES

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
― A.A. Milne

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
― Lemony Snicket

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett

“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”
― Mary Anne Radmacher

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
― Francis Bacon

“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
― Martin Luther

“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
― Ovid

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
― Teddy Roosevelt

“It’s not how we fall. It’s how we get back up again.”
― Patrick Ness

“It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”
― Charles Jones

“What’s the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?”
― J.K. Rowling

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“…A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
― Dale Carnegie

“That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.”
― Bill Watterson

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
― Helen Keller

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.”
― Mary Anne Radmacher

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
― Andy Warhol

“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”
― Criss Jami

“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
― James A. Michener

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”
― Robert Strauss

“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
― Samuel Johnson

“It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.”
― Anthony Robbins

“I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
― John Quincy Adams

“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”
― Anthony Robbins

“If we walk far enough,” says Dorothy, “we shall sometime come to someplace.”
― L. Frank Baum

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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COMMITMENT QUOTES

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
― Criss Jami

“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
― Barack Obama

“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”
― Cornel West

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
― Che Guevara

“The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.”
― Steve Hall

“If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.”
― John Mayer

“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don’t even show that to yourself.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
― Mario Andretti

“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.”
― Warren Farrell

“Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it’s a relationship, a business or a hobby.”
― Neil Strauss

“Coach said. “the quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor”.”
― Sherman Alexie

“Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true,
But you and I know what this world can do.
So let’s make our steps clear so the other may see.
And I’ll wait for you…should I fall behind wait for me.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“All I’m saying is that you shouldn’t stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble ones. No one owes it to someone else to be their girlfriend. It’s a choice you remake every day.”
― Aprilynne Pike

“Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.”
― Esther Perel

“Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment.”
― Phil Knight

“I’ll follow you, even to death—but I won’t live with you any more.”
― Prosper Mérimée

“The only people that can ruin a relationship or make that relationship work are the two people in it.”
― Rob Liano

“The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)”
― Rollo May

“If you don’t write when you don’t have time for it, you won’t write when you do have time for it.”
― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn’t do anything to match up to your wife.”
― Colin Firth

“Seems to me that there is a fine line between insanity and dedication…I call that line commitment”
― Jeremy Aldana

“The difference between those who adapted and those who didn’t, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger

“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.”
― Sammy Davis Jr.

“In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.”
― Dean Koontz

“No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.”
― Kamal Ravikant

“To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment.”
― Steve Maraboli

“One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.”
― Orrin Woodward

“the internet are the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment”
― Hubert Dreyfus

“Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.”
― Allan Bloom

“And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons’, and your sons’ sons, until the day come.”
― Susan Cooper

“The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with.”
― Rob Liano

“success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice”
― Ken Poirot

“Peace may be hard to achieve, but is possible with small yet essential steps that are guided by courage and sufficient commitment.”
― Widad Akrawi

“Marriage is a marriage- love or arranged. Both require the same level of commitment.”
― Swati Kumar

“Our progress, the realization of our dreams, and the quality of our life depend directly on the level of our commitment to the process.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Love is not really a mystery. It is a process like anything else. A process that requires trust, effort, focus and commitment by two willing partners”
― Elizabeth Bourgeret

“As so many commitments
demand your time
Or your shut-eye important be,
Your attraction to me must
in some way lack,
Such a pity to spend time
on thee.”
― Charlotte M. Liebel

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
― Bishop Desmond Tutu

“There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment – no less real but completely different. She had both.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.”
― Stephen Covey

“There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either in or out. There’s no such thing as a life in between.”
― Pat Riley

“A full lifer doesn’t commit to anyone until they’ve committed to her”
― Deanna Kizis

“Love is more than flirty feelings and fun dates. It’s about what lives underneath the surface. The commitment you keep even when life gets hard and all the fuzzy feelings fade.”
― Nicole Deese

“Noncommittal is rampant among the committed.”
― Neal Shusterman

“All I can think is that I want her more than anything. I want her more than I’ve ever wanted anything, ever.”
― Angela Johnson

“A true leader will refuse the title but commit to the task.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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