Courage Is Being Afraid Quotes

#1. Real courage is being afraid but doing it anyway.

Oprah Winfrey

#2. Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow

Dan Rather

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

Rudy Giuliani

#4. True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#5. Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.

John Wayne

#6. Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

Heather Graham

#7. I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try to escape from it is to try to live a lie. It is also to cease to be. My acceptance of despair and emptiness constitutes my being; to have the courage to accept despair is to be.

Michael Novak

#8. Courage, real bravery, is being afraid and doing what you need to do anyway.

Jack Campbell

#9. That's what courage is you know: being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

Jasinda Wilder

#10. The important thing is not establishing if you are afraid or not but it's to be able to live with your own fear without being influenced by it. Otherwise it's not courage anymore, but recklessness.

Giovanni Falcone

#11. Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.

Loung Ung

#12. I'm not brave,' Ava replied huskily. 'If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I am afraid of everything.' 'But isn't that what being brave is all about? Being afraid, but doing it anyway?

Kate Forsyth

#13. All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.

Desmond Tutu

#14. Do you know what courage is? It's being afraid and doing it anyway.

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

#15. That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.

Vandana Shiva

#16. A lot of people think that being a Gallagher Girl means not being afraid of anything. Actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. It's not about ignoring fear. It's about facing it, knowing the risks and the costs and sacrificing safety and security anyway.

Ally Carter

#17. Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

John Dryden

#18. Am I doomed? Flashing darkness is pretty much the same as flashing light really. Fear isn't at all the same as courage but after a certain point perhaps being afraid of everything is the same as being afraid of nothing.

Russell Hoban

#19. Courage doesn't mean never being afraid. We're all afraid sometimes. Bravery means doing the right thing anyway. That's true strength.

Gwenda Bond

#20. I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

Susan Sontag

#21. Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid.

Marie Colvin

#22. Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.

Fennel Hudson

#24. Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#25. I'm tired of being afraid," she said, her breath hitching. Shane shook his head. "The definition of courage is action in the face of fear. By that definition, sweetness, you're the bravest person I know.

Laura Kaye

#26. It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

Criss Jami

#27. Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Franklin P. Jones