I'm naturally a chicken in life so I tend to find things to make me braver like the below quotes.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. " ~ Mark Twain

The challenge is not to stay alive. The challenge is to live.
The middle class must struggle against a death of meaninglessness and mediocrity. - somebody famous (I lost the author tag.)