Fyodor Dostoevsky

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Levi Leipheimer

There is no way of getting up it pretty. You just gotta give it everything you've got, suffer, put on your ugly face, and go for it.

(Pre-stage 12 interview in 2010 Tour de France talking about a 3km 10% hill at the end of the stage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

B. C. Forbes

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Christopher Robin

You are braver than you know, stronger than you imagine and smarter than you think

Mignon McLaughlin

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Walt Disney

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Edward Rickenbacker

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