“Perfect valor consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.”
~Roachefoucauld
“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
~John Irving
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
~e.e. cummings
"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
~Isaac Asimov
“With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.”
~Kesgavan Nair
“You must do the thing you cannot do.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt
“Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.”
~Jerry Gillies
“Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.”
~Eddie Rickenbacker
“In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. They they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.”
~Martin Niemoeller
“ ‘Come to the edge,’ He said. They said,
‘We are afraid.’
‘Come to the edge,’ He said. They came. He pushed them…and they flew.”
~Guillaume Apollinaire