I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

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

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

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.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

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

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

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

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.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

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

The bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

From caring comes courage.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

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.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

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

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.