Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a 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.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
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