Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
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