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

If not us, who? If not now, when?” —John F. Kennedy

“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 Brow

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

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” —Jack Canfield

“Live each day as if your life had just begun.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” —Lao Tzu

“Every noble work is at first impossible.” —Thomas Carlyle

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” ~ Kenji Miyazawa

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” ~ Mark Twain

“Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” ~ Dale Carnegie

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~ Anne Frank

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” ~  E. Cummings