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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Sep 10, 2025
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.
Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.
Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
Courage is not the absence of fear...
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.