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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
― Mark Twain

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
― Plato

“I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Some people have more guts than brains.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”
― Dorothy Bernard

“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.”
― Confucius

“There is no avoidance in delay.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

“Nothing but courage can guide life.”
― Vauvenargues

“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Luck is the residue of design.”
― John Milton

“Good luck is a residue of preparation.”
― Jack Youngblood

“Life is too precious to be left to chance”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“Genius is independent of situation.”
― Charles Churchill