🔥 Courage

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“We are all just walking each other home.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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