Courage "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." --Anais Nin "It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." --Unknown "Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." --David Lloyd George "You can't test courage cautiously." --Anne Dillard "Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." --Peter T. McIntyre "I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me." --Erica Jong "The man who fears suffering is already suffering form what he fears." --Michel De Montaigne "Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them." --Vincent McNabb "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." -- Unknown "Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." --Raymond Linquist "Whatever you do, don't give up. Because all you can do once you've given up is bitch. I've known some great bitchers in my time. With some it's a passion, with others an art." --Molly Ivins "In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it." -- George Bernard Shaw "Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold." --Helen Keller "There are too many people praying for mountains of difficulty to be removed, when what they really need is courage to climb them." --Anon "In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it." -- George Bernard Shaw "A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." -- William Shedd "Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them."--Brendan Francis "Often the test of courage is not to die but to live." - Count Vittorio Alfieri "Start a huge, foolish project like Noah. It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you."-- Jelaludin Rumi |