“...courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.”
An Italian poet said, "We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever." It’s only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens
“Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.”
“Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.”
“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.”
Courage is the human virtue that counts most--courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” | 
