
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brazilian lyricist and novelist whose novel The Alchemist became one of the best-selling books in history, translated into dozens of languages. His fables about following one's dreams have inspired readers on every continent.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.Niccolò Machiavelli

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.Confucius

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.Frederick Douglass

Courage is grace under pressure.Ernest Hemingway

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.Bruce Lee