Francois Fenelon Quotes

Danger is very real but fear is a choice.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

Life has to be dangerous.

I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

When the danger is great, one must not run away.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

The sea hates a coward.

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.