Douglas Conant Quotes

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.

Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!

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

I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

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.

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

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

Courage is not the absence of fear...

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

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

What is stronger, fear or hope?

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

We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.

In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.

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.

Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

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.

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