John McCain Quotes

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

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

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

We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.

Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

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

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

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.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

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

Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

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

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

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

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

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

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

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

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.