Plutarch Quotes

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

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

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

Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

I do not wish to be melodramatic, but at some point I have to say it. If something bad should happen to me, I want you to know that my commitment to what I am doing has been freely contracted, with the joy of knowing that this is precisely what I should be doing at this moment. Fear is constantly present in each one of us, because none of us are movie heroes. But we refuse to accept that fear must condition our actions and prevent us from doing what with a cool head and fervent heart we understand should be done.

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.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.