But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here –– the extraordinary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.

––Annie Dillard

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

––Dinah Shore

Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.

––Billie Jean King

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where won man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.

 ––Clarence Darrow

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

––Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

––Winston Churchill

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

––David Joseph Schwartz

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

––Ralph Waldo Emerson

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

––Aristotle

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life –– specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you’ll die if you venture too far.

––Erica Jong

If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive.

––Bahagavad Gita

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

––Seneca

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

––Clementine Paddleford

To fight fear, act. To increase fear –– wait, put off postpone.

––David Joseph Schwartz

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