John Connolly Quotes

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

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

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

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

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.

Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done

Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

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

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. It is the mastery of fear.

Courage makes victory possible.