“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”– Erica Jong Related Quotes “Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”– Plutarch “Then there is a still higher type of courage – the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.”– Howard Cosell “I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.”– Wallis Simpson