Anonymous

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

Charlotte Bronte

“It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.  The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half-an-hour elapsed and still I was alone.”

--Charlotte Bronte

Les Brown

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” 

--Les Brown

William Shakespeare

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,

It seems to me most strange that men should fear;

Seeing that death, a necessary end,

Will come when it will come.”

― William Shakespeare