You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
In plain words
Every time you face something scary, you come away braver.
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- You Learn by Living, 1960 (p. 29-30)
- 1960
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You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus AureliusYou can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath TagoreStrength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma GandhiFor sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.
SenecaIf you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.
ConfuciusNever let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.Marcus Aurelius
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