A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: ‘As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.’
Joseph Campbell
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.
Virginia Woolf
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Richard Bach
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. . . . There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Euripedes
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop W.C. Magee
Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is a impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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
We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.
Emily Dickinson
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Marianne Williamson
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
Goethe
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.
Earl Gray Stevens
What worries you, masters you.
Haddon W. Robinson
One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being.
May Barton
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Mark Twain
Each of us is a pioneer in our own lives. We’re each charting new territory every day. The people I admire are the people who willingly go forward, no matter what the odds.
Hillary Clinton
