Courage

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a Republic (The Man in the Arena), 1910

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.”

— Rabindranath Tagore, Fruit-Gathering, 1916

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

— Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994