Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.--Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook) 

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts) 

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.--Mary Anne Radmacher 

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.--David Ben-Gurion 

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.--Billy Graham 

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.--Eddie Rickenbacker

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Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine.--Gehles 

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.--Aldous Huxley (Reader's Digest, March 1956) 

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.--Oscar Wilde 

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.--Oscar Wilde 

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.--Franklin P. Jones 

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.--Elbert Hubbard 

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.--Katherine Anne Porter ("St. Augustine and the Bullfight" The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter) 

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.--Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture) 

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.--Dan Stanford 

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself--in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.--Elizabeth Bowen (The Death of the Heart)

Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” Anonymous

“When life gets harder, challenge yourself to be stronger.” Anonymous

“Life is full of challenges, but these challenges are only given to you because God knows your faith is strong enough to get you through them.” Anonymous

If you don’t challenges yourself, you will never realize what you can become.” Anonymous

“Be thankful for each new challenge because it will build your strength and character.” Anonymous

“If it doesn’t challenge you it doesn’t change you.” Fred Devito

Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes them meaningful.” Anonymous

“There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself.” Anonymous

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.” Paulo Coelho

When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They’re sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.” Anonymous

“There’s always a new challenge to keep you motivated.” Sean Connery

“I’m accepting the challenge.” Robert Whaley

“Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution.” Anonymous

“The biggest challenge of life is to be yourself ina world that is trying to make you like everyone else.” Anonymous

“The bigger the challenge, the bigger the opportunity for growth.” Anonymous

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude.”

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

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

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.”

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Helen Keller

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” Helen Keller

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” Helen Keller

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.” Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” Helen Keller