“Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere.” — Unknown

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” — Benjamin Disraeli, 19th-century British statesman and novelist
“Courage is the price life exacts for peace.” — Amelia Earhart, 20th-century American aviator

“Courage is being scared to death — and saddling up anyway.” — John Wayne, 20th- century actor

“The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.” — Unknown “Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use.” — Ruth Gordon “No one reaches a high position without daring.” — Syrus

“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.” — Bishop Westcott

“The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear — fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.”
— H. L. Mencken, 20th-century American journalist and humorist

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.” — Eleanor Roosevelt, 20th-century American stateswoman, First Lady

“Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves let you do.” — Bruce Crampton

“The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.” — Bernard M. Baruch, 20th-century American financier

“All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.” — William S. Halsey

“Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the “courage of their convictions.” — Coventry Patmore

“It isn’t the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.” — Michael Josephson, 20th/21st-century American ethicist

“To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice.” — Confucius, ancient Chinese sage

“One man with courage makes a majority.” — Andrew Jackson, early 19th-century American military hero and U.S. president

“It is better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.” — Albert Camus, Nobel Prize- winning, 20th-century French “existentialist” novelist

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” — William Shakespeare, 16th-century English dramatist

“Cowardice. . . is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.” — Ernest Hemingway, 20th-century Nobel Prize-winning American novelist

“Courage easily finds its own eloquence.” — Plautus

“Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.” — William Congreve, 17th/18th-century English dramatist

“The basest of all things is to be afraid.” — William Faulkner, 20th-century Nobel Prize-winning American novelist

“In times of stress, be bold and valiant.” — Horace, Roman poet
“Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know

has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.” — Pliny the Younger
“Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.’” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th-century American essayist, public philosopher and poet

“The world has no room for cowards.” — Robert Louis Stevenson, 19th-century English novelist and adventurer

“If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.” — Katharine Butler Hathaway

“Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?” — Elizabeth Bowen

“What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.” — Unknown

“When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.” — George Orwell, 20th-century English journalist and novelist

“If we could be heroes, if just for one day.” — David Bowie, 20th-century English pop music performer

“One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being.” — May Barton “What worries you, masters you.” — Haddon W. Robinson

“And each man stand with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 19th-century English poet

“Necessity makes even the timid brave.” — Sallust