Fear Courage Quotes

Let your fear of regret be stronger than your fear of failure. ~ Ruth Soukup

Courage is the counterpoint of fear. Courage appears when in war or business, one is indeed scared. ~ G.R. Gopinath

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing. ~ Emma Donoghue

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. ~ Clare Boothe Luce

We have one great assignment: to fully accomplish what we have been divinely charged by God to the very limit of our sincere strength with due fear courage, in wit and in truth, and within the scope of our Assigner: Jehovah! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Big goals provide the road map for our lives, the compass that tells us we're moving in the right direction. ~ Ruth Soukup

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway. ~ Joyce Meyer

The monster is only scary while it is in the closet.
Once in the light,
you can see its many flaws
and weaknesses.

And often,
we end up laughing,
at what we shield our eyes from
no more. ~ Tom Althouse

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer. ~ Morihei Ueshiba

Waiting feeds fear. Courage comes with deeds. ~ Garth Nix

That is what love does, it upstages fear. ~ Mia Hollow

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is a determination that there is something more important than fear. ~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear. ~ David Crosby

We will die here and trust the meaning of our lives to the next generation.. That is the sole way we can rebel against this cruel world ! ~ Hajime Isayama

If you're only looking out for yourself, you will always be scared. But if there are other factors, other concerns and considerations driving you, you will always find the strength and courage to overcome the danger and the fear. ~ J.H. Myn

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. ~ Umberto Eco

Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear. ~ David Steindl-Rast

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear ... ~ Peter McWilliams

Without fear there cannot be courage. ~ Christopher Paolini

Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage
an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear. ~ George Farquhar

Courage is not the absence of fear ~ Richard Stengel

Anyone who tries to put fear in a heart, has lost their heart to fear. ~ Justin K. McFarlane Beau

When we set goals that feel safe and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. ~ Ruth Soukup

The steeper the climb, the more incentive to reach the top.

Even in the midst of the darkness, there is always a shard of light if we will but search for it hard enough and believe in it strongly enough.

A name portrays the nature of its wearer. The meaning of a name, however, portrays the trueness of its wearer in depths that very few ever come to comprehend.

May God bless you and keep you and give you peace in all that you do, and may we rest assured of this: that though we travel far apart and in many different directions and for long periods of time, we will meet again, if not in this lifetime, then in eternity, and there we will never have to say 'good-bye' again.

Courage is not found in lacking fear, courage is found in not allowing your fear to rule you.

Courage is really just facing fear.

Do not put too much stock in the stars my boy, they are fickle and distant and do not affect the lives of men by very great a margin. ~ Jenelle Leanne Schmidt

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~ Douglas Malloch

I am safe, I am strong, and my heart knows no fear. ~ Paige Vanderbeck

Use your fear ... it can take you to the place where you store your courage. ~ Amelia Earhart

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. ~ Charles Kennedy

It is a rather lamentable fact that few can call upon courage with the expediency they can fear. ~ Gitty Daneshvari

Be strong and free from fear. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Standing up for your ethical principles takes courage. Courage is the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear. When you see something happening in the workplace that just doesn't seem right do you have the courage to stand-up and do something? What are you afraid of? Retribution, disapproval, your image, damaged relationships, or simply the unknown? Courage is about setting aside your fear and taking action for the good of yourself or someone else.

..approaching the person with whom you have a problem. This is NOT easy. Most of us don't naturally confront people. To most of us, the courage to actually go up and talk face-to-face takes a superhuman Kristopher Kime level of courage. Your voice trembles, stomach hurts, beads of sweat roll down your face. It certainly FEELS like a life or death struggle. But remember, courage is about facing difficulty without being overcome by fear. ~ Mark S. Putnam

You must never give in to fear. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Courage never takes away fear; courage simply redistributes fear to get the job done. ~ Dan B. Allender

Growth requires courage, strength and the willingness to go beyond fear. ~ Catherine Louise Birmingham

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear. ~ Lisa Tawn Bergren

It is only with the setting of the sun that one can judge how well the day had gone. Looking back through the vista of time, I can analyse and assess why I fought hard for my right to say no to joining the Baath Party, why I took that first step towards requesting respect for human rights. But it is important to stress this: Up against a task larger than oneself, one has to overcome one's fear. ~ Widad Akreyi

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. ~ Edward Weeks

What is courage without fear? ~ Emily R. King

Whatever you do, you need courage. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements:
fear and love.
Love is of the soul.
Fear is of the personality. ~ Gary Zukav

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear? ~ Elizabeth Bowen

On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and blacked the yin half of the symbol, then pushed it back to my companion. 'Do you know that sign?'
He looked at it a long time with a strange look, but he said, 'No.'
'It's found on Earth, and on Hain-Davenant, and on Chiffewar. It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, Therem. Both and one. A shadow on snow.' ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Courage is knowing what not to fear. ~ Plato

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. ~ Diane De Poitiers

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. ~ William Shakespeare

All happiness depends on courage and work. ~ Honore De Balzac

Courage is knowing what to fear. ~ Plato

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

You cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear. ~ Maia Wojciechowska

Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear. ~ Gabby Douglas

Courage is acting in faith despite your feelings of fear. ~ Joel Balin

When difficulties come, we must see them as what they are---opportunities and a new path to discover your potential. How will you ever know the magnitude of courage you are capable of if you have never experienced the hopelessness of fear? ~ Farah Oomerbhoy

Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do. ~ Jim Butcher

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. ~ Corra Harris

I really can't stress this enough. If you want to make an impact, don't simply sit idly by and 'hope' for courage. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the decision made in determining what is more important than fear. ~ M.B. Dallocchio

Courage Is Not Absent Of Fear. Courage Is Your Willingness To Push Through Fear In Spite Of Feeling It. Be Brave Because You Can. ~ Wesam Fawzi

Even if you go for it and it doesn't work out, you still win. You still had the guts enough to head straight into something that frightened you. That type of bravery will take you places. ~ Evan Sanders

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ~ Mark Twain

Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear. ~ Roy Bennett

Courage is the ability to take bold action in spite of fear. ~ Debasish Mridha

Make a point of practicing imperfect action - do one thing each day just to do it, not because it needs to be "right. ~ Ruth Soukup

Never be frightened! Be fearless! There is no room for fear. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is adharma and fear is disloyalty. All delusions emanate from this evil called fear. ~ Asaram

But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear. ~ Tamera Alexander

COURAGE doesn't mean we are never scared. Courage is ACTION in the face of fear. ~ Ruth Soukup

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones. ~ Sharon Creech

The real you. I've seen her."
"What does she look like?"
Kingsley sighed and smiled. "She's beautiful. Dangerous. All eyes are on her when she walks into a room. Men fear her but not because she's the enemy. They fear her because she alone can show them who they really are. They fear this knowledge but will pay any price for it."
"Is she happy?" Elle asked.
"She's powerful. She can make her own happiness when she wants it. ~ Tiffany Reisz

Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel. ~ Adolf Hitler

Fear is part of our inheritance.
Lev from City of Thieves ~ David Benioff

Safer cities, cleaner cities, richer cities, cities that grow ever more alike: what lurks behind the rhetoric of the Quality of Life Task Force is a profound fear of difference, a fear of dirt and contamination, an unwillingness to let other life-forms coexist. And what this means is that cities shift from places of contact, places where diverse people interact, to places that resemble isolation wards, the like penned with the like. This ~ Olivia Laing

I'm going to die, he said aloud
and yawned. He felt no relief, no despair, no fear. The moment of his end would not grant him even the dignity of seriousness. It was an anonymous moment; a few minutes ago, he had held a toothbrush in that hand; now he held a gun with the same casual indifference. ~ Ayn Rand

You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn it. But some people choose not to unlearn it, because they're afraid they'll lose power if they share with other people. We are afraid of sharing power. That's what it's all about. ~ Jane Elliott

Through words we come to know the other person
and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice. ~ Harriet Lerner

Many writers are radical. I am not, because of my age and because of my terrible fear of demagogy. ~ Heinrich Boll

Love ... no such thing.
Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.
Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that's certain. ~ Arthur Rimbaud

Later, I started to understand just why these children 'hated' us other children. I understood that they did not, in fact, hate 'us', but hated the fact that we were German and spoke in a language that they associated with pain, fear and the loss of their parents, uncles, grandfathers and grandmothers, their whole families, in fact. Once I understood this it affected me in all sorts of subconscious ways, ways that were to blight my life for many years and make me deny my German birth. ~ Alfred Nestor

The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if not a sense of the mutuality of influence, rising out of an essential unity, among soul and body and community and world? These are all the works of God, and it is therefore the work of virtue to make or restore harmony among them. The world is certainly thought of as a place of spiritual trial, but it is also the confluence of soul and body, word and flesh, where thoughts must become deeds, where goodness must be enacted. This is the great meeting place, the narrow passage where spirit and flesh, word and world, pass into each other. The Bible's aim, as I read it, is not the freeing of the spirit from the world. It is the handbook of their interaction. It says that they cannot be divided; that their mutuality, their unity, is inescapable; that they are not reconciled in division, but in harmony. What else can be meant by the resurrection of the body? The body should be "filled with light," perfected in understanding. And so everywhere there is the sense of consequence, fear and desire, grief and joy. What is desirable is repeatedly defined in the tensions of the sense of consequence. ~ Wendell Berry

Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust. ~ Charles Bukowski

He did not fear death exactly, but he had evaded it for so many years that it had come to seem formidable simply by virtue of that long act of evasion. In particular he feared dying in some undignified way, on the jakes or with his face in the porridge. ~ Michael Chabon

People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion - these are the two things that govern us. And yet - ~ Oscar Wilde

There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others. ~ L. Neil Smith

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear. ~ Roxane Gay

I tried to find a way to go on. I could see familiar traces of the path that was my life, but there was always the wall behind me. Do you know what I mean? First you try and climb, pretending it never happened, but it's too tall. Then you try to go around, thinking you can fix it, but it is too far. Then, in frustration, you beat on it with your hands, but it does nothing, so you tire and sit down and just stare at it. You stare because you can't bring yourself to walk away. Walking away means that you're giving up, abandoning them.
"There is no way back. There is only forward. It's impossible to imagine there's any reason to move ahead, but that isn't the real reason you give up. The real fear
the terror that keeps you rooted
is that you might be wrong."
Myron, Monk of Maribor ~ Michael J. Sullivan

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice. ~ Paulo Coelho

In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil. ~ Natan Sharansky

There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children. ~ Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud

WHETHER BEINGS LOVE ME OR FEAR ME IS IRRELEVANT. IF BEINGS GIVE ME THEIR ATTENTION I WILL TAKE THEM TO ENLIGHTENMENT AND BLISS. ~ St. Germain

Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose. ~ Thomas Merton

However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature. ~ Graham Greene

In times of great darkness, courage lights the way home. ~ K.M. Tremills

One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage. ~ Walt Disney

Your greatest difficulty is with yourself; for you are your own stumbling-block. You do not know what you want. You are better at approving the right course than at following it out. You see where the true happiness lies, but you have not the courage to attain it. ~ Seneca.

But the Warrior never allows himself to be discouraged. ~ Paulo Coelho

Every time I stare into those eyes of yours, they shine like a mirror with the sharp edges, piercing trough every bit of my reflection. It makes me feel like a child lost in the woods. And all of a sudden I hear a song somewhere and a shiver runs down my spine. A song that I have heard somewhere before. A song that makes all my demons dance forcefully at once. ~ Akshay Vasu

Fear sells better than sex and the iPhone 5 combined. ~ Greg Palast

I am beyond good and evil at this point. I am beyond the lines drawn in the sand by society at this juncture. I am beyond fear, beyond religion, beyond the morals and mores. I am Lord of the Fucking Flies. Do you understand? ~ Jason S. Hornsby

Have courage, take heart. ~ Holly Ringland

Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him. ~ Hiroyuki Sanada