Take Courage

Take Courage

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time,

and a courageous person afterward. - Jean Paul Richter

Action stems from having dreams that are bigger than your fears. - Terry Litwiller

Because of a great love, one is courageous. - Lao Tzu

Courage doesn't know what's around the corner but goes around it anyway. - Mignon McLaughlin

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. - George Patton

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather

the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. - Harold Wilson

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. - Raymond Lindquist

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. - Michael Pritchard

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies;

for the hardest victory is over self. - Aristotle

If you doubt your power you give power to your doubt.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;

it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. - Seneca

It requires more courage to suffer than to die. - Napoleon Bonaparte

It takes a lot of courage to show your dream to someone else. - Erma Bombeck

Life contracts or expands in direct proportion to the amount of courage one has. - Anais Nin

Never act out of fear and never let fear stop you from acting.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice. - George Jackson

The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.

- James A. LaFond-Lewis

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

- Mignon McLaughlin

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. - Umberto Eco

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. - Soren Kierkegaard

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. - John F. Kennedy

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish.

And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? - Robert Louis Stevenson