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Quotes About Courage

Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.
~ Nelson Mandela
There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.
~ Moss Hart
The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
~ B. F. Skinner
Lots of people misunderstand this. They think not experiencing fear means they're courageous. Bravery isn't about not being afraid, it's about persevering despite your fears.
~ Kim Du-han
To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.
~ Brian Tracy
The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
~ Harriet Ann Jacobs
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
I'm a fighter through and through. I don't fear any person and to go inside that ring with a feared mentality, why even go inside the ring?
~ Daniel Jacobs
Don't be afraid of failure. Never fear it because there's always a lesson if you're open to it. There's always a lesson at the end of it. Always.
~ Unknown
Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.
~ Darren Johnson
Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.
~ Neal Shusterman
Fear of failure is always a driver but the thirst for more is a good one too... So I think you need a little bit of both.
~ Ronda Rousey
So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you to the next thing.
~ RuPaul
To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.
~ Arianna Huffington
My one fear is failure and that's one fear I have to face all the time. Yes, it's uncomfortable to be scared but I'm finally comfortable being uncomfortable.
~ Ronda Rousey
fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.
~ Edna O'Brien
Every day do something that frightens you.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.
~ Matthew Henry
Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared
~ Alan Watts
For some people it may be kind of off-putting. But the idea that fear accompanies us at every step: the point is that our courage has to be bigger than our fear.
~ Rod Stryker
The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.
~ Epictetus