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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
Fear is the mind-killer.
Frank Herbert
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Erica Jong
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up.
Veronica Roth
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The only way to do it is to do it.
Amelia Earhart
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
The only way out is through.
Robert Frost
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Seneca
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
Mark Twain
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Neil Gaiman
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma Gandhi
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
Erica Jong
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J.K. Rowling
The only true test of courage is not how much we are willing to suffer, but how much we are willing to forgive.
Nelson Mandela
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on
Neil Gaiman
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The only way to do something is to be brave enough to fail.
Kirk Douglas
The only way to do something is to be brave enough to try.
Dolly Parton
The only way to do something is to be brave enough to stand out.
Ed Sheeran
The only way to do something is to be brave enough to be different.
Taylor Swift
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible
Arthur C. Clarke
The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working
Albert Einstein
The only way to do great work is to love what you do
Steve Jobs
The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible
Charles Kingsleigh (Alice in Wonderland)
The only way to deal with impossibility is to try to achieve it
Hermann Hesse
The only way to be truly free is to break the chains of fear that bind you
J.K. Rowling
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only true limit is the one you set for yourself
Celestine Chua
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
The only thing standing between you and your dream is the story you keep telling yourself that you can't achieve it.
Jordan Belfort
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson
If you have a dream, don't just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.
Roopleen
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
Barack Obama
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head
on
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off
Gloria Steinem
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within
Mahatma Gandhi
I have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat
Rebecca West
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud
Coco Chanel
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
Edmund Burke
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The truth is rarely pure and never simple
Oscar Wilde
The pen is mightier than the sword
Edward Bulwer
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends
J.K. Rowling
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all
Meg Cabot
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy
Martin Luther King Jr.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena
Theodore Roosevelt
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing
Socrates
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
Alan Alda
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
The only way to do something brave is to first feel fear.
Sarah J. Maas
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Alice M. Swaim
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
The only thing that is constant is change.
Heraclitus
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on.
Sarah J. Maas
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
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