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Quotes About Fear

When I was 10, I beat up the school bully. His arms were in casts. That's what gave me the courage.
~ Emo Philips
Courage in danger is half the battle.
~ Plautus
You never know where your next scare is coming from. You've just gotta find the courage to face it.
~ Shaggy
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid.
~ Marie Colvin
Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step.
~ Katie Davis
One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.
~ Gregory David Roberts
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
~ Sir Walter Scott
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
~ William Shakespeare
The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.
~ Charles M. Blow
Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.
~ Duke of Wellington
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.
~ David Lloyd George
It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.
~ Brene Brown
A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.
~ Tupac Shakur
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
~ Euripides
I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)
~ Lewis Carroll
Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.
~ Robert Kennedy
Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.
~ Irshad Manji
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
~ David Seabury
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
~ Seneca the Younger
It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
~ David Foster Wallace