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“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
“Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.”
“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.”
“Courage is the greatest of all the virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.”
“A man of courage is also full of faith.”
“Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
“Don’t be afraid to think different and challenge the status quo”
“Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.”
“You have to get to the point where going for it is more important than winning or losing.”
“Crush your fears with action.”
“You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.”
“More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.”
“Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.”
“What would you do if you were not afraid?”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
“If it makes you nervous, you're doing it right.”
“We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.”
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
“What's on the other side of fear? Nothing.”
“You are afraid to die, and you're afraid to live. What a way to exist.”
“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it, and eventually the confidence will follow.”
“The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.”
“Fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.”
“Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.”
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
“I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of not trying.”
“Success goes to the bold and courageous, not the meek and fearful.”
“Where fear controls, significant achievement becomes an impossibility.”
“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
“Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”
“Act as if it were impossible to fail.”
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
“He who risks nothing can gain nothing.”
“Try and fail but don't fail to try.”
“One man with courage is a majority.”
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
“If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.”
“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”
“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.”
“In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
“Take the risk or lose the chance.”
“Face your fears. Allow the fear or anxiety to move through you. Embrace it.”
“Don’t let the fear of failure stop you - let it fuel you”
“If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.”
“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
“If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.”
“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.”
“We grow fearless when we do the things we fear.”
“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them, certainly I can, and get busy and find out how to do it afterwards.”
“Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it.”
“Courage is like a muscle - we strengthen it by use.”
“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.”
“I’ve learned that you can’t let fear stop you from doing what you want”
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
“Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart.”
“There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.”
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?”
“All our dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.”
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.”
“There is nothing wrong with being afraid, but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.”
“Great achievements usually involve great risks.”
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
“It's easier to live with disappointment than with regret.”
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.”
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
“Do you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears?”
“Success is the child of audacity.”
“Leap, and the net will appear.”
“The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.”
“Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard. But they might succeed beyond their wildest dreams.”
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature's way of warning us to get busy.”
“Until you are willing to lose it all; you cannot have it all.”
“The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all”
“Just try new things. Don't be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?”
“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
“I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.”
“Feel the fear and do it anyway.”
“Waiting to develop courage is just another form of procrastination. The most successful people take action while they're afraid!”
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
“Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle.”
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
“To each, there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
“True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.”
“Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.”
“We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.”
“You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability.”
“It's better to attempt something great and fail than to attempt nothing and succeed.”
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
“Do what you fear and your fear will disappear.”
“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”
“Babe Ruth hit more home runs than anyone; he also struck out more often than anyone.”
“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.”
“He who is brave is free.”
“To achieve great things we must live as if we were never going to die.”
“Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.”
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.”
“You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.”
“Screw it, let’s do it”
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
“Take risks: If you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.”
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses to take, choose the bolder.”
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
“You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race.”
“Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.”
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is the courage to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.”
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
“He who is not every day conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
“Don't worry about failures; worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
“Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.”
“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose, only then will you learn the game.”
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
“The things that scare you only make you better and stronger.”
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
“Fools hate to look like fools. Wise men don't care.”
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become”
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