You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela

“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” – Winston Churchill

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” – J.K. Rowling

 Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”– Sarah Dessen

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou

“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” – Earl Nightingale

 Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“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.” – Dale Carnegie

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – R. G. Ingersoll

 Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” Anonymous

“When life gets harder, challenge yourself to be stronger.” Anonymous

“Life is full of challenges, but these challenges are only given to you because God knows your faith is strong enough to get you through them.” Anonymous

Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes them meaningful.” Anonymous

“There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself.” Anonymous

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.” Paulo Coelho

“When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They’re sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.” Anonymous

There’s always a new challenge to keep you motivated.” Sean Connery

“I’m accepting the challenge.” Robert Whaley

 Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution.” Anonymous

“The biggest challenge of life is to be yourself ina world that is trying to make you like everyone else.” Anonymous

“The bigger the challenge, the bigger the opportunity for growth.” Anonymous

If you don’t challenges yourself, you will never realize what you can become.” Anonymous

“Be thankful for each new challenge because it will build your strength and character.” Anonymous

 If it doesn’t challenge you it doesn’t change you.” Fred Devito

Challenge yourself everyday to do better and be better. Remember, growth starts with a decision to move beyond your present circumstances.” Robert Tew

“We are not defined by our challenges but lifted up by them.” Anonymous

“The moment you stop accpeting challenges, si the moment you stop moving forward.” Anonymous

“A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.” Anonymous

 Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one" - A.W.Tozer

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things.  It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'." - Elisabeth Eliot

There is no one who is insignificant in the purpose of God." - Alistair Begg

Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done."  –C.s Lewis

 This is our time on the history line of God. This is it. What will we do with the one deep exhale of God on this earth? For we are but a vapor and we have to make it count. We’re on. Direct us, Lord, and get us on our feet." - Beth Moore

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln

Your potential is the sum of all the possibilities God has for your life." - Charles Stanley

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Chuck Swindoll

 To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off postpone.--David Joseph Schwartz

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.--Coventry Patmore

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.--Carl Sandburg

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power.. the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.--Patrick Henry

We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.--Brene Brown (Rising Strong: the Reckoning, the Rumble, the Revolution)

We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.--Philip Gulley ("Wisdom and Ephipany

 Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.--Rudyard Kipling (Collected Works)

Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.--Olivia Newton-John

One person with courage makes a majority.--Andrew Jackson

One man with courage is a majority.--Thomas Jefferson

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.--Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live…--Dorothy Thompson

 Out of the night, the dawn,

 Out of my heart, with all its woes,
 High courage to press on.--Laura Lee Randall

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.--Alfred Adler 

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.--G. K. Chesterton (All Things Considered)

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp, the latter for council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary.—-Charles Caleb Colton 

The secret of freedom, courage.--Thucydides

 Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

 Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength.
 Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom.
 Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone;
 But let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.--Rabindranath Tagore

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.--Anais Nin

Like gaining confidence, finding one's courage is gradual rather than all at once.--Barbara Barksdale Clowse

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment, or unlearning, of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.--Marianne Williamson

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.--Andre Gide

 It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.--Alvaro de Solva

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.--Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.--Robert Louis Stevenson

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.--Kate Seredy

 left hand?--Charles Lindbergh

It doesn't matter if we think we're fearless or if we do things while quaking. The important thing is to be true to our own dreams and live authentic lives.--Diane Conway (What Would You Do If You Had No Fear?)

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.--Seneca

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.--Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.--e.e. cummings

It takes great courage to faithfully follow what we know is true.--Sara E. Anderson

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.--Alex Karras

 Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.--Robert Frost

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.--Unknown

He who is brave is free.--Seneca

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.--Saint Augustine

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.--Aristotle

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.--Eudora Welty (One Writer's Beginnings)

 Fear ends where faith begins.--Giorgio A. Dano

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.--Michael Pritchard

Fear looks; faith jumps. Faith never fails to obtain its object. ... I am not here to entertain you, but to get you to the place where you can laugh at the impossible.--Smith Wigglesworth

Fearlessness is the first requisite of the spiritual life.--Mohandas Gandhi

Freedom lies in being bold.--Robert Frost

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.--D. H. Lawrence

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. --Robert G. Ingersoll

 Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.--Robert F. Kennedy

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.--Erica Jong

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.--Gerald Jampolsky

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.--Allen Klein (Quotations to Cheer You Up)

Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.--Thich Nhat Hanh (Love in Action)

 Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.--Joan L. Curcio

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.--Neal A. Maxwell

Do the thing you fear, then the death of fear is certain.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)

Do what you fear and fear disappears.--David Joseph Schwartz

Don't forget to pack your courage for your journey to greatness.--Dave Weinbaum

 Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.--Ruth Gordon

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

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. People do what they must--in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures--and that is the basis of all human morality.--John F. Kennedy

 Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.--Raymond Lindquist

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
 The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
 Knows not the livid loneliness of fear;
 Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
 The sound of wings.--Amelia Earhart

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

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.--Alice M. Swaim

Courage is reclaiming your life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength, another talent...It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive, special...--Catherine Britton

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

Courage is the atom of change.--Bettina R. Flores

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

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.--Clare Boothe Luce (in Reader's Digest, 1979)

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.--Maya Angelou

 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)

 Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.--John Bradshaw

"Come to the edge," He said. They said, "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," He said. They came. He pushed them...and they flew.--Guillaume Apollinaire

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where won man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.--Clarence Darrow

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)

 You must do the thing you think you cannot do.--Eleanor Roosevelt (You Learn by Living)

Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient that fuels daring.--Grace Lichtenstein

All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.--Emma Goldman

Alone with none but thee, my God
I journey on my way.
What need I fear, when thou art near
O king of night and day?
More safe am I within thy hand
Than if a host did round me stand.--Columba, c 521-97

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.--Helen Keller

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.--Billie Jean King

Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage--and that's the same thing.--George Lorimer

Being afraid to fail is what prevents many of us from trying something new, putting ourselves out on a limb. It often stops us singing, running, working for an exam or telling a joke in company. Fear of failure can also stop us trying to pray. Just in case nothing happens. Just in case we feel foolish. Just in case we make a mess of it.--The Reverend Lucy Winkett ("Thought for the Day," August 16, 2016)

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.--General Omar Bradley

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.--Thucydides

 Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving, if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.--David Sarnoff

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.--Paulo Coelho (The Devil and Miss Prym)

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.--Peter Marshall

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.--Thomas Merton