Walter Scott Quotes

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

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

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.

The sea hates a coward.

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

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.

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

Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step. Don't give in to fear, do it afraid.

Better to die than to live in fear.

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

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'.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

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...

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

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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

I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.” I stare at him for a second. I can’t help it. To me there’s a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.

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

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

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

Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.

The will to do, the soul to dare..