This idea just keeps coming up. First in Too Kill A Mocking Bird here.
Then the other day on a John Wayne poster:
Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Then in The Road Less Traveled today:
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the future.
M. Scott Peck — The Road Less Traveled (page 131)