Courageous Choices Quotes

I'm a firm believer in taking risks in life, because you'll never get anywhere unless you do, and the more risk involved the greater the outcome - or the worse, but you never know so you've got to go for it.

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things

I think, especially in this time in the world, there is very much a choice between fear and courage, and we all have to pick the courageous route.

What I implore you to do is believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there that you will have an impact as a result of what you do, and you don't need to know now what that will be, or how that will happen, because nobody ever does.

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

Believe that if you make courageous choices, and bet on yourself, then you will have an impact.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.

Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer

For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by the society. It will give you a Nobel prize and it will give you many honours; it will do everything to make you feel great, if you can fulfil one condition: if you are obedient, obedient like a robot, then all respect is for you. Then the society will make you a great hero, but there will be no grace, no beauty, no freedom, no truth, no being; you have committed a real suicide.

There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is right and best thing to do. We refuse to be bystanders, even if we do not know exactly where our actions will lead.

If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.

See the encounters of Jesus life as windows into possibilities for yours. Accept the invitation to go or strive to go through the narrow door. Choose between life and fear, for the unengaged life is truly not worth living, and has no possibility of salvation or abundance.

Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.

I'm not in any rat race. This allows me to take up roles that are traditionally considered risky for a heroine to essay.

It is difficult to constantly make courageous choices.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.