Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared

It takes a lot of courage and trust to look past what you’ve been through, and trust someone new not to put you through it again.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Source: Mark Twain in Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto.

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If you have the courage to being, you have the courage to succeed.

Variant: If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Source: Reported in Vince Lombardi, Jr., What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership (2003), p. 105.

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Source: Long Walk to Freedom (1995) by Nelson Mandela. Complete Quote: I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.