Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Mark Twain
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Always do what you are afraid to do.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Plato
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
- William Faulkner
The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.
- Terry Goodkind
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn't have the power to say Yes.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Training yourself to live in the present - without regretting the past or fearing the future - is a recipe for a happy life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Welcome the conquering Hero - and recognize that the Hero is... yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anaïs Nin
If you can dream it, you can do it.
- Walt Disney
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- Anaïs Nin
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
CALM IN CHAOS
In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot [George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880)]
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
I Act with Bold Courage - Taking inspiration from the powerful vision of my future, I boldly set sail with courage and intent. I hold my course with focused attention and relentless commitment, as I weather the storms of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Can Do Anything - Starting Right Now. I have my dream and I choose to move in the direction of my goal, even when I am afraid or unsure. Whenever I fall, I stand up, brush myself off, and keep moving toward my goal.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
