Quotes on Fear And Courage

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

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.