Feel the fear and do it anyway

• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Do the things you fear and the death of fear is certain. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,"Always do what you are afraid to do." Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Strengthen your risk muscle. Keep it in shape by doing new things. If you don't, it atrophies and you're no longer able to take chances. Make it a point to take at least one risk per week. Try a new recipe. Tackle a problem outside your field of expertise. Invest in a new idea. Roger von Oech
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Mark Twain

The rewards

• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin
• We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life. Elizabeth Kubler- Ross
• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Andre Gide
• Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his head out. Jr Gerstner
• And only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous; to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly. Dorothy Thompson)
• Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin. Grace Hansen
• It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aelius Aurelius
• In my view he who goes ahead is always the one who wins. Catherine The Great

Courage

• It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. Elizabeth Henry
• An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer. Chabrais, Athenian general, 357 B.C.
• My centre is giving way, my right is retreating. Situation excellent. I shall attack. Ferdinand Foch
• For the first time in the history of this campaign we are surrounded on the East, West, North and South. We can now attack the enemy in all directions. General Abrams
• "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain