Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar. Erica Jong

Lean into (not away from) what’s making you uncomfortable. Shane Parrish

Amateurs are scared – scared to be vulnerable and honest with themselves. Professionals feel like they are capable of handling almost anything. Shane Parrish (fs.blog)

Will you dare to try and learn and grow? Or will you allow fear to take over? Life happens in the river, not on the shore. Maxime Lagacé

Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what? Marcus Aurelius

Accept in an unruffled spirit that which is inevitable. Seneca

It’s better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at the line for the rest of your life. Paulo Coelho

Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life. Pema Chödrön

The only alternative to a shuddering paralysis is to leap into action regardless of the consequences. Alan Watts

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Having lived the life I’ve lived, and having seen the other side, not being afraid to attack what was in front of me, has made me happy. David Goggins

Have the courage to be who you are, not what people expect you to be. David Goggins

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. Catherine the Great

The hard choices – what we most fear doing, asking, saying – these are very often exactly what we most need to do. Tim Ferriss

Think of yourself as an explorer. You cannot find anything new if you are unwilling to leave the shore. Robert Greene

Understand: we are all too afraid – of offending people, of stirring up conflict, of standing out from the crowd, of taking bold action. Robert Greene

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. Jim Hightower

Don’t avoid something frightening if it stands in your way. Jordan Peterson