Aung San Suu Kyi 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.

Courage comes from acting courageously on a day-to-day basis.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

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.

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

Nothing but courage can guide life.

To try to be brave is to be brave.

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

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

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 doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.