Quotes - Fear and Courage
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things." -unknown
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." -Eric Hoffer
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." -Mark Twain
"The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak." -Jacques Benigne Bossuet
"Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it." -Mark Twain
"If people are only good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." -Albert Einstein
"Confidence is a habit that can be developped by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have." -Brain Tracy
"If you let your fear of consequences prevent you from following you deepest instinct, your life will be safe, but expedient and thin." -Katherine Butler Hathaway
"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears." -Michel de Montaigne
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends." -Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - The Movie)
"Dread is an alien power which lays hold of an individual, and yet one cannot tear oneself away, nor has the will to do so; for one fears what one desires." -Kierkegaard
"People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer." -Andrew Smith
"Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny." -Peter Senge
"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worth while…initially scared me to death." -Betty Bender
"Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be." -unknown
"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken." -Fight Club
"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives develop." -Michael Pritchard
"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice." -Mark Twain
"The things we fear most are the things that have already happened to us." -Robin Williams (One Hour Photo)
"To the man who is afraid, every bush rustles." -unknown
"Those who should the loudest are afraid of the silence." -unknown