Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted.
Each victory must be applauded,
because it is so easy not to battle at all,
to just accept and call that acceptance inevitable.
--Audre Lorde

He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
--Muhammad Ali

...And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
--Erica Jong

Only those who dare to fail greatly
can ever achieve greatly.
--John F. Kennedy, Jr.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
--Frederick Douglass

Lose not courage,
lose not faith,
go forward.
--Marcus Garvey

You must do the thing
you think you cannot do.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

--Helen Keller

You can't be brave
if you've only had
wonderful things happen to you.
--Mary Tyler Moore

Man cannot discover new oceans until
he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
--Anonymous

We fear things in proportion
to our ignorance of them.
--Titus Livius Livy

To know what is right and not to do it
is the worst cowardice.

--Confucius

Everyone has talent;
what is rare is the courage to follow the talent
to the dark place where it leads.
--Erica Jong

What does not destroy me
makes me strong.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear,
not absence of fear.
--Mark Twain

Should you yield the canyons from the windstorms,
you would not see the beauty of their carvings.
--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Make voyages. Attempt them.
There's nothing else.
--Tennessee Williams

If we wait for the moment when everything,
absolutely everything is ready,
we shall never begin.

--Ivan Turgenev

Where life is more terrible than death,
it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
--Thomas Browne

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain
or freed a human soul.
--Mark Twain

Courage is the price that life exacts
for granting peace with yourself.
--Amelia Earhart