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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

By Anais Nin

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A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.

By John A. Shedd

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

By Mark Twain

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

By Winston S. Churchill

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Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.

By Emma Donoghue

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Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.

By George R.R. Martin

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Courage is found in unlikely places.

By J.R.R. Tolkien

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We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

By J.M. Barrie

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I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

By Thomas A. Edison

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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

By Henry Ward Beecher

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Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

By Rumi

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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

By Nora Ephron

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Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

By Erica Jong

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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible

By Vladimir Nabokov

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If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

By Laurence J. Peter

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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

By Albert Camus

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The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.

By Elie Wiesel

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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

By E.B. White

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

By Margaret Mead

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

By Anne Frank

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Study the past if you would define the future.

By Confucius

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Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?

By Craig D. Lounsbrough

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

By Lewis Carroll

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When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity… you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others

By Robert Greene

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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.

By J.R.R. Tolkien

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