Sinead O'Connor Quotes

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

You cannot be brave without fear.

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

Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.

Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

Courage is more important than confidence

We can't be brave without fear.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo

Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

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.

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.

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

In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered, courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it's choosing to act in spite of the fear. You could say that without fear, you can't have genuine courage.