Top 100 Quotes About The Absence Of Fear
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Nelson Mandela
#4. Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention.
Ernest Holmes
#5. Courage was not the absence of fear, but the ability to walk into unknown territory despite it.
Samantha Young
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.
Emma Watson
#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. Courage, my child, is not the absence of fear. It's the triumph over fear.
Wynne Channing
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The Challenge in Life is not to have the absence of Fear, but to have the Courage to overcome it.-RVM
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#16. Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.
Stuart Wilde
#17. The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.
Timothy Keller
#18. Peace is not the absence of fear but the presence love and care.
Debasish Mridha
#19. In the absence of fear, there can be no courage.
Len Smith
#20. Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear ...
Peter McWilliams
#21. Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is a determination that there is something more important than fear.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#22. Being brave is not the absence of fear, but having courage greater than it to dare!
Manuela George-Izunwa
#23. 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
#24. Courage is not the absence of fear - it s inspiring others to move beyond it.
Nelson Mandela
#25. Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I have not been able to identify its presence.
John Knowles
#26. 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
#27. 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
#29. Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.
Earl A Grollman
#30. Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid
Robert Liparulo
#31. Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.
Robert D. Arnott
#32. Peace is not the absence of war - peace is the absence of fear.
Ursula Franklin
#33. The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence.
Victoria Schwab
#34. 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
#35. True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
Martin Freeman
#36. Courage isn't the absence of fear but the willingness to proceed in the face of it.
Niurka
#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. Courage does not consist in the absence of fear, but in the conquest of it.
Brett McKay
#41. We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
John McCain
#42. 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
#43. Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.
Taylor Swift
#44. 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
#46. Rule 2: Genuine confidence is not the absence of fear; it is a transformed relationship with fear.
Russ Harris
#47. 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
#48. Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
Napoleon Hill
#49. 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
#50. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#51. Mark Twain once said that true bravery isn't the absence of fear, but the ability to act in the face of fear.
J.A. Konrath
#52. Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own.
Michelle Cohen Corasanti
#53. Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
Bear Grylls
#54. Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's the choice that something else is greater than that fear.
Theodore Roosevelt
#55. Bravery, after all, isn't the absence of fear. Bravery is the acknowledgement and the conquering of fear.
Derek Landy
#57. Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
Dan Millman
#58. Courage isn't about the absence of fear. Courage is doing the one thing you think you cannot do.
Karen White
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I'm laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#64. I think that fear of the mob, the expectation that people, particularly poor and nonwhite people become mobs almost automatically in the absence of coercive authority, is inculcated by the media, the movies, and politicians.
Rebecca Solnit
#65. Fear is not the absence of Faith but the Silence of Faith.
Evans Biya
#66. He couldn't remember being a child and being able to define happiness: there was only misery, or fear, and the absence of misery or fear, and the latter state was all he had needed or wanted.
Hanya Yanagihara
#67. Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence of confidence. Love is the absence of doubt. Hate is the absence of peace. Fear is the absence of faith. Life is the absence of death.
Jess Bowen
#68. There was a smell about the place, which I imagined as the smell of misery and fear, though I supposed it was no more than the niff of ancient squalor and an absence of drains.
Diana Gabaldon
#69. Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality.
We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.
Biz Stone
#71. Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.
W. Rolfe Kerr
#72. Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.
Marianne Williamson
#73. 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
#74. Absence of doubt? No, nothing so egotistic as that. Nimander has plenty of doubts, so many that he's lost his fear of them. He accepts them as easily as anything else. Is that the secret? Is that the very definition of greatness? He
Steven Erikson
#75. Faith is the absence of peace, and reflection of fear.
Lionel Suggs
#76. Experiment. Live a little. And remember that the fear of absence is the surest sign that absence is direly needed.
Michael Harris
#77. We fell into silence, both of us keeping our own secrets of what we'd suffered in the other's absence. I wondered if we were trying to protect each other or simply didn't want to admit to our own fears and weaknesses.
Richelle Mead
#78. 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
#79. The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.
Simone Weil
#80. Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.
Frederick Lenz
#81. When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.
Deepak Chopra
#82. Free is one that breaks the chains of one's mind and surrenders to that which gives absence of fear.
Tambre Bryant
#83. 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
#85. No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.
Myrtle Reed
#86. It is my opinion that the greatest absence in the church today is the fear of God.
R.T. Kendall
#87. It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, 'Know thyself,' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
George Eliot
#88. Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
Albert Camus
#90. Of course I'll hurt you. Of course you'll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#91. What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
Anthony De Mello
#93. The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
George Saunders
#94. Though I couldn't make out what she was talking of I was terribly frightened; the absence of a clue gave such a range to one's imagination.
("Sir Edmund Orme")
Henry James
#95. But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.
Ann Aguirre
#96. The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values ... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.
John Ralston Saul
#97. How did one deal with such ingrained cowardice? Then I realized that there is no such thing as courage in the absence of cowardice. Courage is also a choice: It's what happens when one refuses to give in to fear.
Sherry Thomas
#98. The Bedouin was troubled by a familiar bundle of Middle Eastern bogeys: America in general and the CIA in particular; Jews, or if not Jews, then Christians; women's sexuality - both the fear of a "past" and the dread of present emancipation signaled by the absence of a veil.
Geraldine Brooks
#99. The greatest gift for an individual or a nation ... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#100. She stood back and wiped the sweat-sting from her eyes. The air was clean. Her hands brown with dirt. Pride surged through her, raw and immense; she had believed happiness to be an absence - of fear, of pain, of grief - but here it roared in her as powerful as any sadness.
Anthony Marra
