Step into your Courage
Working with a coach requires enough courage to say “I want (something) to be different.” The act of sharing that desire with someone else is a first step into courage. Coaching is an invitation to step forward through fear into a different, created future. Engaging with courage is the first way our world begins to shift.
Consider these questions about your relationship with courage:
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- How do you define courage?
- When has courage been important?
- What have you experienced that required courage?
What is courage?
cour·age (noun) | \ ˈkə-rij’ \
mental or moral strength to proceed, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.
Katherine Henson
Courage is risking the known for the unknown, the familiar for the unfamiliar.
Osho
Courage is the only virtue you can’t fake.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
Carrie Jones
Vulnerability is not winning or losing. It’s having the courage to show up when you can’t control the outcome.
Brené Brown
Why does courage matter?
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
Tao Te Ching
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
T. S. Eliot
Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living.
Robert Thier
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson
How do we lean into courage?
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Jonas Salk
Be you, bravely.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Emma Bombeck
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Steve Jobs
Loving ourselves through the process of owning our story is the bravest thing we will ever do.
Brené Brown
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J.K. Rowling
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.
Albert Einstein
Where your fear is, there is your task.
Carl Jung
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Jim Hightower
Have the courage to be who you are, not what people expect you to be.
David Goggins
We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both.
Brené Brown
Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
The most courageous act is to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel
Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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