The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.--Franklin Delano Roosevelt 

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live…--Dorothy Thompson

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” – Bernard Williams

“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller

“I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.” – Arthur Miller

“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

“Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.” – Emanuel Cleaver

“Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.” – Charles Lindbergh

“A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.” – Charles M. Schulz

“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything.” – Thomas Carlyle

“To live without hope is to cease to live.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.” – William Shakespeare

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” — Tom Bodett

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” — Roy T. Bennett

Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle

In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.” — Fritz Knapp

I always entertain great hopes." — Robert Frost

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” ~ Ronald Reagan

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill

“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

“Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.” ~ Katherine Dunham

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

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 Radmach

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” ~ W. Clement Stone

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”~ Winston Churchill

The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” ~ R. G. Ingersoll

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” ~  Seneca

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” ~ John Quincy Adams

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both!” ~ Brene Brown

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

The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” ~ Thucydides

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” ~ Steve Jobs

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” ~ Earl Nightingale

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” ~ Hermann Hesse

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”~ Hermann Hesse

Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” ~ Franklin P. Jones

The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.” ~ Lana Del Rey

Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” ~ Drew Barrymore

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”~ William Ellery Channing

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”~ Khalil Gibran

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”~ Vincent Van Gogh

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”~ Criss Jami

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” ~ Paulo Coelho

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.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ~ Maya Angelou

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” ~ Ambrose Redmoon

“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live.” ~  Cesar Chavez

“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it.” ~ Epictetus

I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past.” ~ Atticus

“Even the darkest tunnel has an end and soon their will be light”. ~Invajy

“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” ~ Ovid

“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” ~ Joshua Graham

Strength is a matter of a made up mind.” ~ John Beecher

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.” – Joel Osteen

“God would not have put a dream in your heart if He had not already given you everything you need to fulfill it.” – Joel Osteen

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.” – Joel Osteen

If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.” – Joel Osteen

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.” – Joel Osteen

No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you’ll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.” – Joel Osteen

There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.” – Joel Osteen

You cannot hang out with negative people and expect to live a positive life.” – Joel Osteen

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.” – Joel Osteen

Don’t go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.” – Joel Osteen