Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.

Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve

Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

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. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

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.'

Our blood don't run. Sometimes we want to. Sometimes we ought to. But we don't ever run from anyone or anything.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.

You do not have to be fearless, just don't let fear stop you.

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.