Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

I don’t care how honest a man is. If he is timid, he is no good.

The important thing about "brave" is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

Forget yourself! Think courage.

When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.

A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

To me fearless isn't not having fears, it's not that you're not afraid of anything. I think that being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.

Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.