Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?
It is brave to be involved.
When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Be courageous! ... I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward.
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
We ought to face our destiny with courage.
You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hardworking. ... Do not fear to pioneer, to venture down new paths of endeavor.
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.
