Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

The best soldiers are not warlike

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

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

It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid

Even in the most bold and daring acts, courage is a matter of the heart.

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.

Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

I was a coward. I went to the war.

One of my mantras is if I'm scared to do something, that means that I have to do it.

Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.

Physical courage is a great test.

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.