Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
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The key to change... is to let go of fear.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. (Christopher Robin to Pooh)
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
One man with courage is a majority.
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
