Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.
My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.
Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.
Face your fears or they will climb over your back.
The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.
Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.
Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that’s worth more to you than your fear.
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
Learning how to face fear really makes you invincible because you stop being scared.
Once you slay one fear, you can conquer many fears.
The fears you don’t face control you. The fears you face, you move beyond.
The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.
best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!
In order to overcome fear, your dream must become bigger than fear.
Fear is not negative. We should overcome all our fears and this in turn would make us stronger. As soon as we overcome our fears we can face any challenge.
One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
Fear is a destructive emotion that can deal a fatal blow to any attempt on your part to build total self-confidence. If you allow your fears to run your life, it will be impossible to create the life you truly desire.
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
