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Category: Bravery and Fear

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1. "There is in superstition a senseless fear of God."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quotations about: God and Religion

2. "Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."

Andrew Carnegie

3. "Fear is conquerable. Doubt is defeatable. Self worth is buildable."

Terri McPherson

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

4. "It's a dangerous business going out your front door."

J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring"

Quotations about: Various

5. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about: Work and Laziness -:- Talent and Genius

6. "[...] only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

7. "I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs."

Samuel Goldwyn

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

8. "Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar."

Erica Jong

9. "It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."

Elizabeth Henry

10. "Courage is the price life exacts for granting peace."

Amelia Earhart

Quotations about: Peace and War

11. "Bravery never goes out of fashion."

William Makepeace Thackeray

12. "The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."

Michel de Montaigne

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

13. "Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense."

John Ralston Saul, "The Doubter's Companion"

Quotations about: Various

14. "Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas."

Erwin Rommel

Quotations about: Various

15. "A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."

James Callaghan

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Success and Fame

16. "Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown."

John Buchan

Quotations about: Peace and War

17. "Impossible is a word found only in the dictionary of fools."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope -:- Work and Laziness

18. "Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."

Friedrich von Schiller

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

19. "Early and provident fear is the mother of safety."

Edmund Burke

20. "Those who love to be feared fear to be loved."

St. Francis de Sales

Quotations about: Love

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21. "Victory depends on whether or not a duelist has the courage to fight until the bitter end."

Abraham Maslow

Quotations about: Success and Fame

22. "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

Maria Skłodowska-Curie

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

23. "I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear Him not."

Saadi

Quotations about: God and Religion

24. "A hero is a man who does what he can."

Romain Rolland

25. "I fear no one, but respect everyone."

Roger Federer

26. "Danger is next neighbour to security."

English proverb

Quotations about: Various

27. "Courage is grace under pressure."

Ernest Hemingway

28. "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

Eric Hoffer

29. "The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

Robert G. Ingersoll

30. "The French courage proceeds from vanity - the German from phlegm - the Turkish from fanaticism and opium - the Spanish from pride - the English from coolness - the Dutch from obstinacy - the Russian from insensibility - but the Italian from anger."

George Gordon Byron

Quotations about: History and Nations

31. "Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."

Arthur Koestler

32. "We crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow."

Fulton Oursler

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia -:- Time and Passing

33. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

Ambrose Redmoon

34. "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

35. "It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."

Alfred Adler

36. "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says... I'll try again tommorrow."

Mary Anne Radmacher

37. "It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life."

Irish proverb

Quotations about: Life and Death

38. "Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the presence of fear with the capacity to manage and overcome it."

Anon.

39. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

40. "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic."

Anon.

41. "Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise."

Anon.

42. "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."

James Baldwin

Quotations about: Various

43. "Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the Gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision."

Norman Mailer

44. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

Martin Luther King, "Strength to Love"

Quotations about: Human

45. "Every dog is valiant at his own door."

English proverb

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

46. "Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope -:- Anger

47. "We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

48. "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: Time and Passing

49. "A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

50. "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

Bertrand Russell, "Marriage and Morals"

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Love

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