Chris Cleave Quotes

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.

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 was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

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.

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

Better to die than to live in fear.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.

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

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

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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

Courage? Well, that's a difficult quality to define. If a man has never known fear can you call him courageous?

You've got to be brave.

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

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

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

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

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

Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.