"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
- Lao Tzu

"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage."
- Confucius

"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."
- Maxwell Maltz

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

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The future path is uncertain so involves risk. Have the courage to take chances.

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Hope is a form of optimism that motivates and also tends to bring out courage.

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Confidence grows when we attempt and complete difficult tasks or survive difficult experiences.

"There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake."
- Orison Swett Marden

"Life is full of ups and downs. The trick is to enjoy the ups and have courage during the downs."
- Carson Kolhoff

"There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake."
- Orison Swett Marden

"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

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing."
- David Letterman

"Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!"
- Sir William Osler

"To take the difficulties, setbacks, and sorrows of life as a challenge which to overcome makes us stronger, rather than as unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage."
- Erich Fromm, Art of Loving

"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

Have courage during the downs....persevere.....

"Life is full of ups and downs. The trick is to enjoy the ups and have courage during the downs."
- Carson Kolhoff

"Life is cyclical. It has ups and downs. Remember what goes down must come up. You control how long you stay in the down mode."
- Mary-Francis Winters

"Life is full of lots of ups and downs… sometimes it’s like a wave in the ocean, knocking you down and leaving you breathless… Other times it like a ripple in a pond, barely noticeable but going on and on… Keep in mind when things don’t move they become stagnate and die so even in the confusion, enjoy the movement... It means you are alive!"
- Karen Kostyla

"Life is filled with ups and downs, the one who perseveres can turn his life around."
- Sherman Holmes

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
- Orison Swett Marden

"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'"
- Stephen Covey

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Have the courage to say no when needed.

"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to."
- Oscar Wilde