Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Mark Twain

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anaïs Nin

Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room. Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)

Too many men are afraid of being fools. Henry Ford

We ought to face our destiny with courage. Friedrich Nietzsche

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone. Friedrich Nietzsche

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. Michel de Montaigne

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

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Charlie Chaplin

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. Have the courage to follow your own heart and intuition. Steve Jobs

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King Jr

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. Nelson Mandela

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. John F. Kennedy

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. John Wayne

Freedom lies in bold action. Robert Frost

Courage, dear heart. C.S. Lewis (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader)

Choose courage over comfort. Brené Brown (Dare to Lead)

A king is one who fears nothing. Seneca

The scared freeze. The brave try. Maxime Lagacé

All serious daring starts from within. Harriet Beecher Stowe

The stronger your principles, the more you’ll fight for them. Maxime Lagacé

Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is the only virtue you can’t fake. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Do you have the courage to act outwardly on what you see inwardly. T.D. Jakes

Do you have the courage to act outwardly on what you see inwardly. T.D. Jakes

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

Courage means doing what’s right no matter what they say. Maxime Lagacé

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.--Dale E. Turner 

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.--Henry David Thoreau 

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.-Robert Conklin 

Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them.--Josie Bisset 

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.--Sir James M. Barrie 

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.--Steven Callahan 

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.--Roger Von Oech 

Empower your dreams with deadlines.--H. Jackson Brown (?) (Life's Little Instruction Calendar, 1999) 

Enough! It's time to grow up. If we want to play adult games--living our Dream--we must play by adult rules. One of the primary adult rules: We are individually responsible for our own lives.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)