I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.
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