🔥 Courage

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“We are all just walking each other home.”

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

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

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

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

“If you cannot see yourself working with someone for life, do not work with them for a day.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.”

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”