Brian Jacques Quotes

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

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.

I think I learned I'm braver than I think I am.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

Forget yourself! Think courage.

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back

You can't have bravery without fear...

Courage. By beginning the journey with that word and continuing with faith in God, you will arrive wherever you need to arrive.

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.

[Courage] always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle. So you say, "Okay, when you tell me what it is that I'm supposed to do, please give me the courage to do it."

Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.

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.

We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we are unexpectedly tested.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.