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

2. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark Twain Read more:

3. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou

4. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. George S. Patton

5. Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. Albert Einstein

6. My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength. Michael Jordan

7. Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu

8. You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius

9. Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. John Wayne

10. The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine

11. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Norman Vincent Peale

12. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to 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. Eleanor Roosevelt

13. 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. Steve Jobs

14. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. Theodore Roosevelt

15. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin R

16. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Lord Chesterfield

17. The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. William Jennings Bryan

18. Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. Henry Rollins

19. Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. Jonathan Swift

20. When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Tecumseh

21. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau

22. Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself. W. C. Doane

23. First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus

24. Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. Arthur Golden

25. The best way out is always through. Robert Frost

26. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche

27. God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. Henry Ward Beecher

28. I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! Dr. Seuss