Walter de La Mare Quotes

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

It needs courage to be afraid.

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step. Don't give in to fear, do it afraid.

Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

Courage is not the absence of fear...

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

Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.

Fear shuts off possibilities. The first thing that kicks in when you're reacting with fear... This is what I love about Roosevelt's quote, "There's nothing to fear but fear itself."

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

Courage is more important than confidence

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

You cannot be brave without fear.

Today's Declaration: I am courageous. I am willing to act in spite of fear.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.