The only Quality that can Conquer Fear4 min read
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As Ordinary Visionaries, we often underestimate the difficulties and challenges we will face when we embark on our journey.
At first, our vision may help us feel confident, even invincible.
But then we are faced with an action we know we must do but are scared to death to do it.
I saw that so much with clients I worked with: “I want to attract lots of great clients.” But when it came to putting themselves out there, they froze.
This is when we need to discover and cultivate this essential quality:
C O U R A G E
Without courage, you hold back, hedge your bets, and hope for things to change. But you won’t take the decisive actions necessary to move forward.
We all know that feeling of fear that prevents us from taking that next scary step, and we know the disappointment we feel when we don’t.
However, if you truly understand what courage is and commit to living a courageous life, your vision will actualize at an accelerated pace.
Here are 25 powerful quotes about Courage:
1. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon
2. “The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.” – Michel de Montaigne
3. “Courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.” – Alfred North Whitehead.
4. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
5. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'” – Eleanor Roosevelt
6. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
7. “Wealth lost – something lost; Honor lost – much lost; Courage lost – all lost. ” – German Proverb
8. “The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” – Mignon McLaughlin
9. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher
10. “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
11. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
12. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” – Aristotle
13. “The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.” – Charles M. Schwab
14. “It takes courage to accept that you are not perfect and to act as if you are.” – Alan Cohen
15. “Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway
16. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks
17. “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” – Erma Bombeck
18. “You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.” – Brené Brown
19. “The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
20. “Courage is the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what out not to be feared.” – David Ben-Gurion
21. “Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.” – Samuel Johnson
22. “You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
23. “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” – Harper Lee
24. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
25. “Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.” – Erica Jong
What is something you are thinking about right now but avoiding? Are you justifying it or rationalizing your avoidance?
If you are, you are not admitting, let alone facing your fear.
Tap into your innate quality of Courage and take action now.
Just one little step is often all it takes. Then go all in and get it done.
Cheers, Robert
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