Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.--Jerry Gillies

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.--Gertrude Stein

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.--Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook)

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)

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

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 no to be feared.--David Ben-Gurion

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

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.--Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values.--Rollo May (The Courage to Create)

Courage is not simply another virtue, it is the true form each and every virtue takes when put into practice.--Michael Rawls (from Friday's Inspiration: The Foundation of Integrity - 6/1/2001)

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

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.” ― Margaret Mitchell

 “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”― E.E. Cummings

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel

 “True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid…”― L. Frank Baum

Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.” – Roy T. Bennett

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”― William Faulkner

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt Click to tweet

If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney

You have to dream before your dreams can come true. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. Michael Phelps

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Elvis Presley

It was all a dream. The Notorious B.I.G.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream. Vincent van Gogh

You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream. Martin Luther King Jr

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein

Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain

Dreams don’t work unless you do. John C. Maxwell

Dream big. Start small. Act now. Robin Sharma

Think, believe, dream, and dare. Walt Disney

Let your dreams be your wings. Unknown

In dreams begins responsibility. W. B. Yeats

You get one life. Make it count. Shane Parrish

I've read the last page of the Bible, it's all going to turn out all right.”

“It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.”

“My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.”

“God proved his love on the Cross. 

When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’”

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.”

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

“Christ not only died for all: he died for each.”

 “Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.”

“When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God."

our passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” – Isabelle Lafleche

“Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk

“Hold the vision, trust the process.” – Unknown

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

“People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.” – Unknown

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”― Neil Gaiman

“Everything you can imagine is real.”― Pablo Picasso

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ― Helen Keller

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

Hope is a good thing--maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies.--Stephen King (The Shawshank Redemption)

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.--Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hope is a talent like any other.--Storm Jameson

Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.--Jeremy Collier

Hope is a waking dream.--Aristotle

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.--George Saville

Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.--Lin Yutang

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.--Letitia E. Landon

Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.--Max Lucado (God Came Near)

Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.--Samuel Smiles

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.--Rosamond Lehmann (The Ballad and the Source)

Opportunities are on every hand; what we need is, not a new chance, but clearness of vision to discern the chance which at this very hour is ours, if we recognize it.--Katherine Krieger

Opportunities are seldom labeled.--John A. Shedd

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.--Ann Landers

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.--Anonymous

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.--H. J. Brown, Jr. (A Hero in Every Heart)

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.--William A. Ward

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.--Sir Winston Churchill

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.--George Jackson

Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.--Lida Clarkson ("Brush Studies" Ladies' Home Journal, 1884)

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.--Soren Kierkegaard (Journal)

Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.--Joyce Meyer

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing;" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.--Fulton J. Sheen

Patience is the art of caring slowly.--John Ciardi

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.--Plautus

Patience is the companion of wisdom.--Saint Augustine

Patience is the key to contentment.--Mohammed

Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.--Bantu proverb

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.--Charles Caleb Colton

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.” Rita Mae Brown

“Experience is the teacher of all things.” Julius Caesar

6. “Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector’s item.” Isaac Marion

“Life is a journey with problems to solve, lessons to learn, but most of all, experiences to enjoy.” Anonymous

“Every experience makes you grow.” Anonymous

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” Randy Pausch

“Change is our chance to experience the new, to identify additional options and generate different opportunities.” Barbara Lucas

 “Go for it. No matter how it ends, it was an experience.” Anonymous

 “Fill your life with experiences. Not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” Anonymous

 “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes

 “One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.” James Russell Lowell

 “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” Oscar Wilde

“Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside.” Karl Kraus

“Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practised.” Barbara W. Tuchman

“I didn’t fail. It was a learning experience.” Anonymous

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.” John Keats

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale

“If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.” – Kenneth Goldsmith

Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried but you’ve actually been planted.” – Christine Caine

“Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” – Unknown

“Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come.” – Unknown

The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.” – Unknown

“If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is.” – Catherine Pulsifier

“You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.”  – Unknown

“Impossible is just an opinion.” – Paulo Coelh