I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
~ Frederick Douglass
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Courage
Inaction
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~ Dale Carnegie
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Courage, part 3
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
~ Erica Jong
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Carving
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
~ Kahlil Gibran
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Heart
Before you embark on any path ask the question, does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it and then you must choose another path. The trouble is that nobody asks the question. And when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart the path is ready to kill him.
~ Carlos Castaneda
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Courage, part 2
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
~ Amelia Earhart
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Courage, part 1
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
~ Anais Nin
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Courage
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon
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Courage
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne
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Courage
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absense of fear.
~ Mark Twain
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