"Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse." ~Unknown
"You can either throw in the towel, or use it to wipe off your sweat." ~Unknown
"True courage is not the absence of fear, but the willingness to proceed in spite of it." ~Unknown
"As for courage and will..we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry us through trials which may lie ahead." ~Andre Norton
"Come to the edge," Life said. They said: "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," Life said. They came. It pushed them. . . and they flew." ~Guillaume Apollanaire
"Never stop dreaming, for out of such fragile things come miracles." ~Unknown
"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and simply secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for inmovement, there is life, and in change, there is power." ~Alan Cohen
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." ~E. E. Cummings
"But holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. If anything it makes you weaker, because you're doing it out of fear" ~Sarah Dessen
"Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different." ~Oprah
"Whatever you fear most has no power.. it is your fear that has the power." ~Oprah
"A stumble may prevent a fall." ~Thomas Fuller
