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“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.”

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”

“Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, the fear that lies behind it, and choose to learn with wisdom. The fear will not vanish immediately, but it will disintegrate as you work with courage. When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. When you choose to learn through wisdom, to evolve consciously, your fears surface one at a time in order for you to exorcise them with inner faith. This is how it happens. You exorcise your own demons.”

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”

“When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

“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.”

“Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.”

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.”

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

“Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.”