Courage
"Courage is not the absense of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"You will hear today all that you need in order to understand the purposes of the Enemy. There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it." – Tolkien (Elrond)
"Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.” – Tolkien (Elrond)
"There are some things it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark." – Tolkien (Aragorn)
"I used to think that adventures were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually – their paths were laid that way…But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we wouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on – and not all to a good end, mind you..." – Tolkien (Samwise)
"’Come to the edge.’
‘We can’t. We’re afraid.’
‘Come to the edge.’
‘We can’t. We’ll fall!’
‘Come to the edge.’
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew." – Guillaume Appollinaire
"Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
"There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take." – Peter Drucker
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