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Quotes About Courage

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.
~ Deborah Harkness
When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.
~ Ron Suskind
I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. There was a lot of fear, but it was also very exciting.
~ Emma Stone
Beneath every excuse lies a fear. Practice being fearless.
~ Robin Sharma
But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.
~ Unknown
best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.
~ Eric Rucker Eddison
Fear only goes where it's invited to stay.
~ Drew Holcomb
The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.
~ William O. Douglas
The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.
~ Francine Pascal
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
~ Francis Bacon
Listen to your fear but don't obey it.
~ Seth Godin
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?
~ Epictetus
Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.
~ Francois Fenelon
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.
~ William Wordsworth
Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!
~ William Gurnall
He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.
~ Thomas Hughes
I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.
~ William Kittredge
How to overcome fear? Be around people who are fearless.
~ Frederick Lenz
From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.
~ Garrison Wynn
Go out and do the things you are afraid to do gradually. Gain the power to do that through meditating. You will find yourself limitless reality that knows no fear.
~ Frederick Lenz
All fear violence, all are afraid of death.
~ Gautama Buddha