Anonymous

Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of it.

Jeanne DuPrau

“...look at all the remarkable things [they] had done! It wasn’t because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.”

--Jeanne DuPrau

Theodore Roosevelt

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Mary Anne Radmacher

“Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says, ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.’” 
--Mary Anne Radmacher

Lloyd Alexander

“Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched.”

― Lloyd Alexander