Courage

Courage

• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage. — Anais Nin

• Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. — Erica Jong

• He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. — Emerson

• We must travel in the direction of our fear. — John Berryman

• The goat dwells among men for fear of the leopard. — African (Jabo) Proverb

• A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. — Sydney Smith

• Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. — Eddie Rickenbacker

• The best way out is always through. — Robert Frost

• Danger and delight grow on one stock.  — English Proverb

• In Carlos Castenada’s books, the teacher Don Juan described a warrior this way: “He must defy his fear, and in spite of it he must take the next step in learning, and the next, and the next. He must be fully afraid, and he must not stop. That is the rule!”

• Courage is grace under pressure. — Hemingway