Quotes About Fear

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

We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

To do something you're afraid of, especially for the sake of somebody else, is the very definition of courage.

Courage is not the absence of fear, it's to feel the fear and face it anyway.

Careful! The kraken is wagging its tentacle, again.

Spiritual cowardice is not only weakness but wickedness.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.

Men perish by the sword cowards by disease.

There is no such thing as bravery only degrees of fear.

If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him.

Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.

The coward despairs.

Sometimes, it takes more courage to be weak.

All men would be cowards if they durst.

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid he's stupid.

To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something.

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success.

Many become brave when brought to bag.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage.

To be brave one short instant is no easy matter it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.

At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.