Top 43 Quotes About 'courage Is Not The Absence Of Fear'
#1. We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
John McCain
#2. Courage is not the absence of fear; true courage is manifest in bravely doing what has to be done in spite of fears or foes or the foolishness of the crowd or the taunts of the group. True courage is doing the right thing in spite of the odds or opposition or apprehension.
Emerson Roy West
#3. Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.
Earl A Grollman
#4. True courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear control your actions.
~ from the book "Do Hard Things
Alex Brett Harris
#5. Courage is not the absence of fear - it s inspiring others to move beyond it.
Nelson Mandela
#6. I read once that courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than that fear.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#7. Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is a determination that there is something more important than fear.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#8. Courage is not the absence of fear. Only fools have no fear.
Rather, courage is the intellectual mastery of fear by understanding
the true risks and opportunities of the situation and keeping those
things in balance
Julian Assange
#9. Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.
Robert Fanney
#10. We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.
Joyce Meyer
#11. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#13. Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
Dan Millman
#14. Courage is not the absence of fear. Hope is not the absence of trouble. Joy is not the absence of pain. Love is not the absence of obstacles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#15. For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
Natalie Dormer
#16. I really can't stress this enough. If you want to make an impact, don't simply sit idly by and 'hope' for courage. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the decision made in determining what is more important than fear.
M.B. Dallocchio
#17. Courage, my child, is not the absence of fear. It's the triumph over fear.
Wynne Channing
#18. Fear is not the absence of Faith but the Silence of Faith.
Evans Biya
#19. Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.
Alexander Sutherland Neill
#20. 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.
Arianna Huffington
#21. The Challenge in Life is not to have the absence of Fear, but to have the Courage to overcome it.-RVM
R.v.m.
#23. The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.
Timothy Keller
#24. Peace is not the absence of fear but the presence love and care.
Debasish Mridha
#25. I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
Bram Fischer
#26. Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear ...
Peter McWilliams
#27. Being brave is not the absence of fear, but having courage greater than it to dare!
Manuela George-Izunwa
#28. Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be ...
Margaret Atwood
#29. It is one of the strangest anomalies of life that the absence of fear, and not formal education or brilliance of mind, is the major cause of individual success.
Napoleon Hill
#30. If we linger in indecision, as does Buridan's beast, we will not perish. We will simply miss an opportunity to act decisively in the absence of certainty, and show that our fear of error is greater than our love of truth.
Terryl Givens
#31. Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Gerald Jampolsky
#32. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
#33. Substitution is a true test of strength. The real performance of a player is seen not only during playing time but also and more especially when the player is substituted.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#34. And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.
Paulo Coelho
#35. Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid
Robert Liparulo
#36. The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you.
Arianna Huffington
#37. Rule 2: Genuine confidence is not the absence of fear; it is a transformed relationship with fear.
Russ Harris
#38. Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.
Taylor Swift
#39. We need to find our courage, which, of course, is not the absence of fear but rather the willingness to feel the fear and move forward anyway. Fear isn't going to kill us. It's an energy that we can allow to move through us.
Panache Desai
#40. True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
Martin Freeman
#41. Respect is not fear and awe; it ... [is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.
Erich Fromm
#42. Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.
Stuart Wilde
#43. Peace is not the absence of war - peace is the absence of fear.
Ursula Franklin
