Lyman Abbott Quotes

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

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

You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise.

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

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

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

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

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

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

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Action conquers fear.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

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

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

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

You've got to be brave.

Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

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.

One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.

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

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

Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.