"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."
- Robert H. Schuller

"False hopes are more dangerous than fears."
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Children of Hurin

"Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear."
- President Snow in the movie 'Hunger Games'
http://youtu.be/UVKlk26-ZOU

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
- Dale Carnegie

"Every conflict we face in life is rich with positive and negative potential. It can be a source of inspiration, enlightenment, learning, transformation, and growth–or rage, fear, shame, entrapment, and resistance. The choice is not up to our opponents, but to us, and our willingness to face and work through them."
– Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith

"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
- Charles Caleb Colton

"As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness."
- Dalai Lama

"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." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment, to fear, or to your own pride, lusts, or ego. You were designed to worship God and if you fail to worship Him, you will create other things (idols) to give your life to. You are free to choose, what you surrender to but you are not free from the consequence of that choice."
- Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free."
- Stephen King (The Shawshank Redemption)

"False hopes are more dangerous than fears."
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Children of Hurin

"Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear."
- President Snow in the movie 'Hunger Games'
http://youtu.be/UVKlk26-ZOU

"For most of my life, I'd let the fear of failure stop me from doubg much of anything that would stretch me, anything that would allow me to grow as a human being - because I didn't want to do anything that fell short of this idea of perfection that I'd constructed in my mind."
- Lyman Reed

"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."
- Robert H. Schuller

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
- George Smith Patton

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
- Dorothy Bernard

Some people develop courage from their experiences.....

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
- Meg Cabot

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if you have to dig a little."
- Tori Amos

"To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity." 
- Edward Weeks

Story of courage and creating an opportunity without using evil devices:

"Despite my fears, I composed an email to Gerry Murphy (the CEO)....Deep breath time. I reread it again for those 20 seconds. Then I pressed the send button.
I didn't sleep that night.
A day later I received a reply....
The meeting went well and I immediately became part of the team compiling a board proposal....All because of one little email and 20 seconds of courage."
- Paul Drury, "Find Your “20 Seconds Of Insane Courage",
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140925130451-12088091-find-your-20-seconds-of-insane-courage?trk=tod-home-art-list-small_2

From the song 'Let Me Fall' by Josh Groban:

Let me fall,
Let me climb,
There’s a moment when fear
And dreams must collide.

Someone I am,
Is waiting for courage,
The one I want,
The one I will become
Will catch me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3VpTnQAxns