🔥 Courage

“When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.”

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”

“The thing about the struggle is that it is not a struggle for anything in particular. It is a struggle to be.”

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, but through every human heart.”

“The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists.”

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor.”

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”

“Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.”

“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”

“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors cannot say: I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”

“The soul that has no established aim loses itself; for, as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

“I have learned you are never too small to make a difference.”

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”

“Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honor.”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”

“Faith is taking the first step even when you do not see the whole staircase.”

“We are all just walking each other home.”

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

“Everything negative, pressure, challenges, is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

“A free man dies once. A slave dies a thousand deaths.”

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but through persistence.”

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.”

“Every one of us is a potential activist. Every act of speaking out is an act of courage.”

“The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.”

“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.”

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”

“When I am in the zone, there is no fear.”

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”

“It is not the will to win that matters. Everyone has that. It is the will to prepare to win that matters.”

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”