Betty Williams Quotes

Being brave is not as easy as it looks.

You cannot be brave without fear.

Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.

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

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

I'm not afraid," Rafi said. "Why not?" "If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

The sea hates a coward.

Without fear there cannot be courage.

It needs courage to be afraid.

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.

Fear shuts off possibilities. The first thing that kicks in when you're reacting with fear... This is what I love about Roosevelt's quote, "There's nothing to fear but fear itself."

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

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

I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.

Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction.

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

We can't be brave without fear.

It feels good to show some courage.

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

Courage is its own reward.