Courageous Actions Quotes

You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.

Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana

Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.

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

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.

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

Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.

People follow courage, not titles.

God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.

Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.

It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.

People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.

I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding.

We grow fearless when we do the things we fear.

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.