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Courage Quotes by Jack Kornfield
- We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears…
- To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.
- We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.
- It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song.…
- The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
- When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We…
- Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good…
- We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We need energy, commitment,…
- The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost…
- Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.
More Courage Quotes
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. — Teresa of Avila
- Action is the antidote to despair. — Joan Baez