Fear & Courage Quotes

Great fear is concealed under daring.

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.

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

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

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

Courage is grace under pressure.

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

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

Necessity does the work of courage.

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 is being afraid but going on anyhow.

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

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

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

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

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

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

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

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

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

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

Fear is the mother of foresight.

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

Fear usually looks like anger.

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

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

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

Fear is real, but so is love.

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

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.

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.

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

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

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Faith is reason grown courageous.

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

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

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

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

Courage in danger is half the battle.

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

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

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.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Courage is the birthplace of confidence.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

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

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

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

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

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

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