Audie Murphy Quotes

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

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

Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.

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

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

I like to do things that frighten me. When I’m afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling... All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, ‘I should do it. If I don’t do it, no one will do it for me.

All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn't prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

In order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

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

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.