“There comes a time in the lives of those destined for greatness when we must stand before the mirror of meaning and ask: Why, having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice?”

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you’re definitely not an expert.

Choosing our own aims and seeking to bring them to fruition creates a sense of vitality and motivation in life. The only things that derail our efforts are fear and oppression.

When the world question your abilities, respond with your actions.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

The time you want the map, is before you enter the woods.

Why having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice?

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

Selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

Aliveness doesn’t happen in silence. Aliveness doesn’t happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.

If your guard is up, let it down. If you’ve constructed a defensive wall to protect yourself and keep all the bad guys out, don’t forget who that wall also prevents from getting in – the good guys.

As soon as you seek to inspire others, it inspires the best in you.

We have to reconceptualize and understand that the act of pursuing our dreams and being our full selves is what allows us to feel alive.

The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

It is the main motivation of mankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction–to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.

You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.