Courage Vs Fear Quotes

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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

Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.

Love trumps hate. Courage loves fear. Right always trumps wrong.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it.

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?