Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

Don't do anything for fear, because fear will never do anything for you.

Fear could never make virtue.

Never take counsel of your fears.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

Let us banish fear.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

My greatest fear has always been that I would be afraid - afraid physically or mentally or morally and allow myself to be influenced by fear instead of by my honest convictions.

It is curious–curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)

Cowards can never be moral.

Be just, and fear not.

Cowardice is the greatest sin.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?

Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.