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

“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” – Mary Tyler Moore

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.” – M. Forster

“Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“It takes courage to walk away from disagreements.” – Amanda Ray

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” – Brené Brown

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

“He who is brave is free” – Seneca

“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

“If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.” – Criss Jami

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.” – Plato

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel

“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” – Erica Jong

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” – Jane Austen

“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.” – Shannon L. Adler

It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett

Bravery is good when the cause is good."Bernhard Schlink.

Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!"Bram Stoker.

It takes guts and bravery and heart to walk a mile in a single girl’s shoes. And sometimes a fabulous pedicure."Mandy Hale.

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

 “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 highest result of education is tolerance.” Helen Keller

 “It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.” Helen Keller

 “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” Helen Keller

 “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” Helen Keller

 I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” 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

 “Knowledge is love and light and vision.” Helen Keller

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.” 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

 “Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” 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

 “When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” Helen Keller

 “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” Helen Keller

 “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” Helen Keller

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Helen Keller

 “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” Helen Keller

 “The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.” Helen Keller

 “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” Helen Keller

 “Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.” Helen Keller

 “We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.” Helen Keller

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” Helen Keller

 “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” Helen Keller

 “While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.” Helen Keller

“It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.” Helen Keller

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.” Helen Keller

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.” Helen Keller

Once I knew only darkness and stillness, my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.” Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."