Rob Sheffield Quotes

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

I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.

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

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.

Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.

You do not have to be fearless, just don't let fear stop you.

To try to be brave is to be brave.

Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!

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

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

I ain't scared of the fall / I've felt the ground before.

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

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

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

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

That's the way to go. People say: 'Oh, he doesn't want to come back, he's scared,' and it's to play with your brain, to play with your mind. I'm not scared of nobody. I'm not scared of no human being. I'm scared to fight, every time I fight I'm scared, but I'll bite into my mouthpiece and I'll walk the walk.

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

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.