James A. Michener Quotes

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

There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.

My biggest strength is I'm courageous, or if I am afraid of something, I do it anyway. I do what I feel. It's nothing personal against anyone, so that courageousness has been very good to me.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Fearless doesn't mean careless. There is a thin line between fearless and careless. I think we need to play fearless.

I am sufficiently wary of dangerous situations, but I'm not scared of having a go.

Action conquers fear.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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

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

As a stuntwoman, I never wanted anyone to ever feel afraid for me. I didn't want anyone to ever feel sorry for me.

I'm more the kind of man who never makes decisions. But impulsivity is not the opposite of courage; I think it's possible to do both.

You've got to be brave.

I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

Choose bravery but not bravado.