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A Life Lived in Fear, is a Life half Lived.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. --Dorothea Brande
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. --Cormac McCarthy
...and the things I had buried were exhuming themselves; clammy fears and dangerous thoughts and the shadows I had put away for a more convenient time. I could not put them away forever, there is always a day of reckoning. But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that. --Jeanette Winterson, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"
As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. --Andre Norton
Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right. --Norman Macleod
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. --Eddie Rickenbacker
Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it. --Gilbert K. Chesterton
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. --Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. --Alice Mackenzie Swaim
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. --Frances Rodman
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. --Clare Booth Luce
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. --Winston Churchill
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. --Mary Byrant
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. --Mark Twain
Fear is faith that it won't work out. --Sister Mary Tricky
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. --Michael Pritchard
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. --Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"
I don't know the MEANING of the word FEAR!
Cowardice, terror, dread... THOSE I know.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. --George Bernard Shaw
I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center. --Stephen Spender
I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. --Charlie Brown
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave... --Ernest Hemingway, "A Farewell to Arms"
True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear; but going beyond fear. --Chogyam Trungpa
It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts. --Jean Francois Regnard
It is curious--curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. --Mark Twain
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. --Seneca
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. --Robert Louis Stevenson
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. --Anais Nin
Often the test of courage is not do die, but to live. ---Conte Vittorio Alfieri
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. --Rainer Maria Rilke
Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing. --Dr. Robert Anthony
Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else. --Donald Smith
Taking a new step is what people fear most. --Dostoevsky
The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave! --Timothy Luce
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. --Corra Harris
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bare defeat without losing heart. --Robert Green Ingersoll
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. --Mignon McLaughlin
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. --Franklin Roosevelt
The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior. --D.A. Battista
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. --Bertrand Russell
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. --Keshavan Nair
You can't test courage cautiously. --Anne Dillard
Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.
