Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. 
Amelia Earhart

You could certainly say that I’ve never underestimated myself. There’s nothing wrong with being ambitious.
Angela Merkel

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude. 
Anne Frank

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
Arianna Huffington

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
Aung San Suu Kyi

The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand

Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community. 
Bell Hooks

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

Bethany Hamilton

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
Brené Brown

Do not be afraid to make decisions. Do not be afraid to make mistakes.
Carly Fiorina

One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel

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 have 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

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You're afraid of surrender because you don't want to lose control. But you never had control. All you had was anxiety.
Elizabeth Gilbert

“Finding yourself" is not really how it works. You aren't a ten-dollar bill in last winter's coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people's opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. "Finding yourself" is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you. 
Emily McDowell

If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong

Frida Kahlo
At the end of the day, we can endure
much more than we think we can.

Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.

Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance.
Gabrielle Roth

Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways.

Glennon Doyle

Georgia O'Keeffe
To create one's own world takes courage.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary - you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt

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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. 
Helen Keller

There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
Jane Austen

By having the courage to take the first step into rooms, circles, and conversations where you may feel like you don’t belong, you also open the door for others to contribute their diverse perspectives, creating more meaningful, collaborative solutions for today and beyond.
Kim Vu

Jane Goodall
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide
what kind of difference you want to make.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
Joyce Carol Oates

Our fear of the unknown and our fear of making mistakes trick us into focusing on what we don’t know or can’t do. When we give ourselves the freedom to be uncertain and less than perfect, then we can start thinking, “What do I know? What can I do?” That’s when the adventure starts — learning, thriving, conquering, failing, recouping, and having a ton of fun.
Kristin Smith

Margaret Atwood
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

…each person has a ‘story’—a personal narrative—which is constantly being replayed, revised, taken apart and put together again. The significant points in this narrative change as a person ages—what may have been tragedy at 20 is seen as comedy or nostalgia at 40.

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

Marie Curie
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

More than whimsy, joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.
Margaret Feinberg

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher

There are two things people want more than sex and money…recognition and praise.
Mary Kay Ash

There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others. 
Mary Shelley

Maya Angelou
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.

We need much less than we think we need.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make worth being born, myself a human being.

Pearl S. Buck

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I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Rosa Parks

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it’s right.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
Ruth Gordon

So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it.
Sheryl Sandberg

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations, can never effect a reform. 
Susan B. Anthony

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. 
Rosa Luxemburg

Simone de Beauvoir
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. 
Sylvia Plath

Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at you, teeth bared. You are frightened and angry. But then you notice that one of its legs is caught in a trap. Immediately your mood shifts from anger to concern. You see that the dog’s aggression is coming from a place of vulnerability and pain. This applies to all of us. When we behave in hurtful ways, it is because we are caught in some kind of trap. The more we look through the eyes of wisdom at ourselves and one another, the more we cultivate a compassionate heart.
Tara Brach

To me, “Fearless” is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them.
Taylor Swift

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Virginia Woolf

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