Quotes on Fear Courage

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.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

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.'

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

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.

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.

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