Quotes to Inspire Courage to Reach the Lost

I found a number of quotations on http://www.thinkexist.com/ that are excellent motivators to instill courage in you. I hope you find them as beneficial as I do.

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."
Raymond Lindquist

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
C.S. Lewis

"Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway."
Dr. Robert Anthony

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear"
Mark Twain

"He who is brave is free."
Seneca

"Initiative is doing the right things without being told"
Elbert Hubbard

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Earl Wilson

"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."
Anonymous

"A man of courage is also full of faith."
Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."
G. K. Chesterton

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
Maya Angelou

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."
Ralph W. Sockman

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."
Billy Graham

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

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

"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

"Courage is the fire that burns in the cold,dark room of fear and doubt that we live in."
Unknown