Elvis Costello Quotes

Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

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

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

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

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

I don't feel particularly courageous.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

Courage is more important than confidence

Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Fear is not one of my attributes.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

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

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Only those who have the courage to take a penalty miss them.

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

Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .

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