Quotes About Courage

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.

Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

Kohaku aren't you afraid to die? No. Truly, there is neither fear nor hesitation in your eyes.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

Fear is vision without hope.

I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.

The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

I have no fear in moving up (in weight) and fighting.

Hang those that talk of fear.

Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.