Setbacks are part of life and surely each of one of us has somewhat experience, in differing degrees, that "bitter life moments" and "the dark valleys". It could be through our financial losses, sickness, death of loved-ones, career uncertainties, business failures, broken relationships.
Even if you are someone who is intentionally and passionately pursuing your dreams and goals, there will come a time when your knees will shake in fear and doubt. Fear in not knowing what the future holds for you in the midst of setbacks or the feeling of helplessness.
However, we should remember that struggles and failures are part of the breakthroughs in our lives and what separates the champions from losers is on how we are going to face the challenges as they come.
Be inspired by these words from people who have encountered trials, failure, doubt but choose to face up to the challenges in their lives.
1. “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” - Soren Kierkegaard
2. “The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”- R. G. Ingersoll
3. “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. 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 errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt
4. “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. "What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." – Goethe
6. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
7. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”- Nelson Mandela
8. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”- Walt Disney
9. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”-Muhammad Ali
10. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”- E. E. Cummings
11. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”- Winston Churchill
12. “Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”- Rabindranath Tagore
13. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”- T. S. Eliot
14. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”- J. K. Rowling (Dumbledore, Harry Potter)
15. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”- Anais Nin
16. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”– Mark Twain
17. "The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”- Tacitus
18. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.” - Ambrose Redmoon
19. “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” - Raymond Lindquist
20. “Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” - Dorothy Bernard
21. “You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.” – Ray Bradbury
22. “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
23. “True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
24. “Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.” – Victor Hugo
25. “Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway
26. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” – Vincent Van Gogh
27. “The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.” – Publius Cornelius Tacitus
28. “There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” – Seneca
29. “Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.” – Jean Paul
30. “This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.” – Winston Churchill
31. “Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.” – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
32. “Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.” - William Shakespeare
33. “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” – Billy Graham
34. “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” – Harper Lee
35. “Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.” – Vittorio Alfiere
36. “Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.” – Henry Ford
37. “Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.” – George Eliot
38. “A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.” – Graham Greene
39. “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."” – Deborah Collins
40. “The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.” – Henry Van Dyke
41. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” - Hellen Keller
42. “Sooner or later, even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.” - Stephen King
43. “If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.” -David Viscott
44. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” - W. Clement Stone
45. “The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” - Jim Hightower
46. “There is no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bear witness that a man has the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.” - Victor Frankl
47. “I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare.”- Maya Angelou
48. “Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.” -Erica Jong
49. “Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward; that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.” - Terry Goodkind
50. “Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action…..no matter what. So you’re afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you’re trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!” - Richelle E. Goodrich
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