Courage

I thought if you melt dry ice, you could swim without getting wet. ~ Steven Wright ...

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."                  - Sir Winston Churchill ...

"And do you feel the fire when the flame gets hot? Are you living every day like it's the last you got? Will you step aside when it all falls down, And watch it burn away? Have a little faith ...

"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends" - J.K. Rowling ...

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear" - Ambrose Redmoon ...

“Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”   -  Walter Anderson ...

"Hope has two beautiful daughters - their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are." - St. Augustine ...

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

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage." - Maya Angelou ...

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."              - Soren Kierkegaard ...