Fear And Courage Quotes

• He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

  Aristotle

  Freedom, Fear, Athlete

  "Florilegium". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Courage, Fear

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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  Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.192, Crown

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• 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.

  Harper Lee

  Courage, Real, Gun

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

  Dale Carnegie

  Confidence, Fear, Weight Loss

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.13, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Courage, Time

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• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

  Dan Rather

  Sympathy, Courage, Cancer

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2014

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• I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

  Erica Jong

  Fear, Fearful

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 09, 2012

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Friendship, Courage

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 17 (1997)

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

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.138, Beacon Press

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• Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

  Thomas Fuller

  Running, Fear, Bravery

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• Without fear there cannot be courage.

  Christopher Paolini

  Fear, Bravery, Saphira

  "Dragons Get a Modern Image Makeover". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. January 27, 2007.

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• Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

  "Maya Angelou’s Art Collection Will Give You The Fire To Finish The Day Right" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2015.

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• [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Meaningful, Courage, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.126

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Courage, Hero, Bravery

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• Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.192, Crown

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• Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strength, Being Strong, Running

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.41, Westminster John Knox Press

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• You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, God, Christian

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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