Commit yourself to a dream . . . Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle--he defeated the fear of trying.--Robert H. Schuller 

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality.--James Womack 

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.--Belva Davis 

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.--Anonymous 

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes with a sharp stick called truth.--Dan Rather (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe) 

Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes) 

Dream big dreams, then put on your overalls and go out and make the dreams come true.--Fred Van Amburgh 

The dream is not the destination but the journey.--Diane Sawyer 

Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” –Bethany Hamilton

“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.” – Veronica Roth

“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

“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.” – Lao Tzu

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.” – JoyBell C.

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

“Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.” – Timothy Dalton

“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.” – Paulo Coelho

“Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.” – Zig Ziglar

Alfred North Whitehead: "True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."

Aristotle: "Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."

Ben Horowitz: "Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business."

Benjamin Disraeli: "Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

Benjamin Franklin: "How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."

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

Bruce Lee: "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."

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

Charles Lindbergh: "Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?"

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

Chester W Nimitz: "God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."

Christopher Morley: "The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."

Confucius: "Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."

Dale Carnegie: "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

Daniel J Boorstin: "The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."

David Ben-Gurion: "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 not to be feared."

David Letterman: "There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior."

Dean Koontz: "Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool."

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

Eleanor Roosevelt: "You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."

EM Forster: "Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."

Erich Fromm: "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

Erma Bombeck: "It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."

EW Hornung: "Money lost, little lost. Honour lost, much lost. Pluck lost, all lost."

Giacomo Casanova: "It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless."

Gilbert K Chesterton: "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."

Gilbert K Chesterton: "The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it."

Harry S Truman: "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."

Hermann Hesse: "People with courage and character always seem sinister to the ."

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us” - Augustine

God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile" - Max Lucado

God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies." - Hudson Taylor

God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go."  - Tony Evans

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” Corrie Ten Boom

Christ literally walked in our shoes." - Tim Keller

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

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter." - Francis Chan

If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!" - D.L. Moody