Terry Brooks Quotes

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...

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.'

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

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

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

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

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

The sea hates a coward.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.

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 is more important than confidence

The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it