Quotes About Courage In The Face Of Fear

#1. I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom or the words that might inspire hope and courage in the face of fear. My weapons are peaceful, for it is only by peace that peace can be attained. The song of freedom must prevail.

Paul Robeson

#2. Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action. Many of today's world leaders have great courage: I wonder ... would we be better off with cowardice?

Joshua Fernandez

#3. We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#4. Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear.

Roy Bennett

#5. Courage is the will to act in the face of any fear.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand fast in the face of opposition, hardship or danger.

Jo Baer

#7. Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

#8. One challenge at a time, I try to turn into the face of fear and tell it "you are not my master, you are the product of my self and I am your master." I look into the monster's eyes until it disappears. Then I am free.

Rohvannyn Shaw

#9. It is the fear of God which gives us the confidence to face men and their evil and to be confident of ultimate victory.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#10. You can't do anything as long as you are afraid of what might happen. Fear clouds opportunities, erases possibilities, and limits the ability to move beyond the place in which the mind is stuck. No matter how difficult we think the problem is, we must muster up the courage to face it.

Iyanla Vanzant

#11. Extension of ourselves or moving out against the inertia of laziness we call work. Moving out in the face of fear we call courage.

M. Scott Peck

#12. Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.

Olivia Newton-John

#13. Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#14. Mindfulness allows you to face the past with courage, whether it is scarred with pain or caressed with joy, and it gently holds you in the safe haven of the present without allowing you to become overwhelmed with what may or may not be waiting in the future.

Deborah A. Beasley

#15. Courage is doing your duty in the face of fear.

Dennis Rainey

#16. The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

Tess Gerritsen

#17. If you aren't willing to face your demons-if you can't find the courage to take on your fear and hurt and anger-you might as well wrap them up with a bow and give them to your children. Because they will be carrying the same thing ... unless you are willing to do the work

R.A. Dickey

#18. She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.

Elizabeth Goudge

#19. The gold of a lowland lord is as worthless as a half man's promises' Gunthor said.
'Half a man I may be' Tyrion said. 'Yet I have the courage to face my enemies. What do the Stone Crows do, but hide behind rocks and shiver with fear as the knights of the Vale ride by?

George R R Martin

#20. Courage is not about being unafraid...Courage has to do with moving forward in the face of fear.

Barbara Mariconda

#21. Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

Frank Herbert

#22. We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Aleatha Romig

#23. You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#24. I turned to face her. "What about fear. Can you outrun it?"

"Only if ye stand still and face it do ye have a chance against fear.

April White

#25. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#26. The time has come when fear is not important,only faith and courage to face all.

Gotname Bitrus

#27. There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.

Barbara Boxer

#28. That is what courage is: it is acting in the face of fear.

Amy A. Bartol

#29. You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear.

Chris Prentiss

#30. Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.

Lynn Jones

#31. Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living.

Annie F. Downs

#32. Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.

Vironika Tugaleva

#33. Courage isn't the absence of fear but the willingness to proceed in the face of it.

Niurka

#34. There is an ironic paradox in that courage requires fear. Fear provides the opportunity for courage. However, one must be willing to face the hard demands of courage, confront that fear, and ultimately triumph over it.

Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco

#35. It's not enough to wish, dream, hope. Even children know this. We must set sail into the sea of uncertainty. We must meet fear face-to-face. We must take our dreams as maps for a greater journey. Dreams, to come true, need a good story. So go live one.

Vironika Tugaleva

#36. The most effective and permanent way to silence fears is to face them.

Vironika Tugaleva

#37. 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

#38. Cowgirl Courage isn't the lack of fear, but the courage to take action in the face of fear.

J.H. Lee

#39. And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.

Robertson Davies

#40. We humans are imperfect, but what makes us human is not are kind but our courage to overcome fear, our ability to turn imagination into reality, our hope to diminish despair, and have a smile on our face although we in a predicament.

Paranjay Malkan

#41. No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

Jon Gordon

#42. I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

Mary Pope Osborne

#43. Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'... Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.

Laura Davis

#44. Every challenge in your life works out in the long run. If you can adopt this mindset, you'll face your challenges with the knowledge and courage that it all works out in the end. You'll no longer fear them and you'll look forward to the lessons to be learned from every experience ...

James A. Murphy

#45. Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#46. The courage to continue before the face of despair is the recognition in those eyes of darkness we find our own night vision. Women blessed with death-eyes are fearless.

Terry Tempest Williams

#47. Face your fears and you will be able to conquer them.

Bohdi Sanders

#48. All men have their FEARS. But those who face their fears with FAITH have COURAGE as well.

Thomas S. Monson

#49. There where they learned that courage is not the ability to face your fear, heroically, once, but is the strength to do it day after day. Night after night. Faith without end. Love without border.

Sunil Yapa