🔥 Courage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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