Faith is reason grown courageous.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Fear is a powerful beast. But we can learn to ride it.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

Courage? Well, that's a difficult quality to define. If a man has never known fear can you call him courageous?

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Courage is the birthplace of confidence.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Fear usually looks like anger.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.