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Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
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When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
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
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
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Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
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Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
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Life expands to fill your dreams.
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I Act with Bold Courage.
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The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
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Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
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Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
I Walk Today's March With Courage.
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I Sing Wild Songs Of Adventure.
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Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
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I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
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When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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