Francis Bacon Quotes

People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

… at least as brave as the whites and more adventuresome

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

Welcome Beauty, banish fear.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.

Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and you don't need to made that particular mistake again, but at least you won't get old wondering what if you had.

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

When someone is fearless, when pain isn't a factor, it's impossible to break his spirit.

I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.

Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.

Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.