I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

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

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Fortune befriends the bold.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘