Quotes on Fear And Courage

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.