... and occasionally get hurt attempting the impossible.
-- 'Cody'
A brave man is not a man who is not afraid, but one whose will is stronger than his fear.
Courage is resistance of fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Courage is that small, quiet voice inside that says 'I will try again tomorrow'.
If you scare them, they wont see how scared you are.
What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.
-- Hacker's Law
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
-- Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.
-- Amelia Earhart
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-- Anais Nin
What you fear most has already happened.
-- Annie Rodgers, 'The Shining Affliction'
There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.
-- Anthony Rapp
When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
-- Audre Lorde
You are strong enough to reach that point where you can accept love without fear, and accept fear without needing someone else's love and support. And when you get there you will be immensely powerful as a person, because you'll be safely able to venture wherever you wish, to lavish love on anyone you care to without need to hold some back for your own safety, and best of all, to be loved without feeling fear that the love may leave again.
-- Brandtotter, LiveJournal
Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.
-- Brigitte Bardot
I will no longer take on the fears and insecurities that others have about me.
-- Bryce
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Courage is in every tear you shed.
-- D R Durga
All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required."
-- Dave Barry
Life is a risk.
-- Diane Von Furstenberg
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
-- Dr Boyce, ST:TOS
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.
-- Edgar Wallace, 'The Clue of the Twisted Candle'
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
-- Edgar Watson Howe, 'Country Town Sayings'
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-- Elbert Hubbard
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face. I say to myself, I've lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along. We must do the things we think we cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not a virtue; rather it denotes a lack of courage.
-- Frances Owens
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark.
-- Francis Bacon
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
-- Frank Herbert, 'Dune' (Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear)
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
-- Franklin Roosevelt
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
-- Gandhi
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
-- George Patton
One of the things which danger does to you after a time is, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love.
-- Graham Greene, 'The Confidential Agent'
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.
-- H P Lovecraft
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
-- Helen Keller
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford
Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds, it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.
-- James F Bell
Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear; but around in awareness.
-- James Thurber
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.
-- Jimmy R
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept it and it's all plain sailing.
-- John Lennon
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
-- Julia Sorel
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
-- Junius
Being your best isn't as much about overcoming the barriers other people place in our way as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.
-- Kieran Perkins
If imagination is not set to the task of building a creative life, it busies sitself with weaving a web of inner fears and doubts, blame and excuse.
-- Laurence G Boldt
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk being called sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk showing your true self. To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called a fool. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk despair, and to try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
-- Leo Buscaglia
As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
-- Marianne Williamson
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
-- Mark Twain
You stop worrying about what other people think about you when you realize how little they do.
-- Mark Twain
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
-- Mary Tyler Moore
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
-- Miles Davis
Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no troubles like the paralyzing effects of fear.
-- Paul Parker
A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.
-- Pauline Kael
Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
-- Rollo May
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
-- Ruth E Renkel
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures...Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.
-- Susan Jeffers
I had to face my fear. That was more important than just going on living.
-- The Doctor, 'Doctor Who'
Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born?
-- Trevor Kay
What are fears but voices airy? // Whispering harm where harm is not, // And deluding the unwary, // Till the fatal bolt is shot!
-- William Shakespeare
Only fools have no fear.
-- Worf, ST:TNG
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
-- e e cummings
