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Quotes About Fear

Fear is the strongest prison and courage is the only way out!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.
~ L. Frank Baum
The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.
~ Mardy Grothe
The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.
~ Albert Camus
Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.
~ Gayle Forman
Courage is caution overcome.
~ Lyman Abbott
Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
~ Barbra Streisand
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.
~ Robert Blair
Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.
~ Ysabeau S. Wilce
It is easier to die bravely than to live so.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear
~ Paulo Coelho
Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
~ Seneca the Elder
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
~ William James
Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
~ William Cowper
Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.
~ John Donne
I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
~ Edith Evans
You won't take risk without courage.
~ Andy Stanley
with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!
~ Phyllis Bottome
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.
~ Rajneesh
Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.
~ John Donne
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
~ Horace Smith
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.
~ Helen Keller