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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
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.
Nelson Mandela
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert
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
Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is feeling the fear, the doubt, the insecurity, and deciding that something else is more important.
Mark Manson
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
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
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
Winston Churchill
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Seneca
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must be undaunted when the going gets tough.
Ronald Reagan
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
Douglas MacArthur
Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.
Simon Sinek
Leadership is not about being fearless, it's about being brave enough to take action in spite of your fears.
Unknown
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
Leadership is not about being the boss. It's about taking care of those who are in your charge.
Unknown
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the presence of fear but with the strength to push through.
Unknown
Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
J.R.R. Tolkien
The only way to do something brave is to first be afraid.
Captain Hook
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African Proverb
The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you’re doing, and thinking it’s beautiful or rich, then you’re in danger.
Miuccia Prada
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.
Anonymous
I am not a hero, but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
Medal of Honor recipient Desmond Doss
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Brian Tracy
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Unknown
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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 only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming.
Theodore Roosevelt
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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