George R. R. Martin Quotes

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

The important thing about "brave" is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified.

Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

To try to be brave is to be brave.

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.

The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered, courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it's choosing to act in spite of the fear. You could say that without fear, you can't have genuine courage.

Courage is not the absence of fear...

I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

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.'

Fear is the root of all courage.

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