"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on." 
-Alice Duer Miller

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
-Ambrose Redmoon

"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies." 

-Robert Louis Stevenson

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." 
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The three elements of creativity are thus loving, knowing, and doing; or heart, mind, and hands; or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it, great faith, great question, and great courage."
-Eric Maisel

"Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose." 

-Tom Krause

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
-T.S. Eliot

"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

-Buddha