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If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively.

Antarctic exploration is seldom as bad as you imagine, seldom as bad as it sounds.

If you are a brave man you will do nothing: if you are fearful you may do much, for none but cowards have need to prove their bravery.

Such extremity of suffering cannot be measured: madness or death may give relief.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

Man is but a reed, weakest in nature, but a reed which thinks.

War is the province of danger, and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior.

I want to fall… forward. At least I figure that way I’ll see what I’m about to hit.

I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

I find I want courage to marry where I do not like

For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Perhaps when all is written courageously, I shall have no courage left to publish it.

During this night journey I put myself both in feeling and in fact in a blind man's place—the best lesson I ever had to develop deliberation and keenness of touch.

Will you not go back, and you will see clearer when you have laid aside fear?

Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.

Fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business: what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness.

the only thing we have to fear is fear itself

The strength of our determination was about to be fully tested.

To balance probabilities, where life and liberty hang on the result, requires steady nerves.

One must not avoid one's tests, although they constitute perhaps the most dangerous game one can play, and are in the end tests made only before ourselves and before no other judge.

The man that stands upon a principle is the same calm, dauntless, self-possessed man under all circumstances.

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

Fears vanish as soon as one is fairly free in the wilderness.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship