"Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without
it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency."
Maya Angelou
"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can – and surely will at
times – fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love,
can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take
the worst, take the risk."
Dr. Joyce Brothers
"I wanted to be scared again . . . I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the
only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged."
Connie Chung
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given
medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity."
Samuel Johnson
“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the
dark place where it leads."
Eric Jong
"Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend."
Helen Keller
"Perhaps I am stronger than I think."
Thomas Merton
"Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because
we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them."
John F. Milburn
"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the
difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact
become."
Ashley Montague
"The work will teach you how to do it."
Estonian Proverb
"Faith is the only known cure for fear."
Lena K. Sadler
"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once."
William Shakespeare
"Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway."
John Wayne
"All serious daring starts from within."
Eudora Welty
