You cannot discover oceans unless you have the courage to leave the shore.

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet." There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.

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 can not do.

Courage changes things for the better . . . [With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.