Joyce Meyer Quotes

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

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

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

Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel 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.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

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.

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

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid

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

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.

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.

The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

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

We must not be shocked into impotence because we are afraid of the difficulty of the alternatives facing us.

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

I refuse to live my life in fear.

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

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.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.