courage
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.”
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: he that fears otherwise gives advantage to the danger.”
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
“These are the times that try men's souls.”
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
“Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you.”
“To create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage.”
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”
“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.”
“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.”
“If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.”
“Fear not that your life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.”
“Nothing would be done at all, if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.”
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”