Quotes about Fear
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act despite it.
— Desmond Tutu
A young man is afraid of his demon and pulls his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him.
— DH Lawrence
I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.
— Ed Koch
I don't like dragons and blood all that much.
— Judith Love Cohen
I was never super comfortable playing music in front of people anyway. Now I enjoy it, but it wasn't the easiest thing to get past.
— Mark Lanegan
Paul admitted to knowing fear, but it never stopped him. "I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling," he reported in 1 Corinthians 2:3, but the verb is came. He did not stay home out of fear for the journey.
— J. Oswald Sanders
It is a pitiable cowardice to try to overcome fear by ignoring the facts. We do not become masters of our fate by saying that we are. And such blatancy of pride, futile as it is, is not even noble in its futility. It would be noble to rebel against a capricious tyrant, but it is not noble to rebel against the moral law of God.
— J. Gresham Machen
Leaders require courage of the highest order -- always moral courage -- and often physical courage as well. Courage is that quality of mind that enables people to encounter danger or difficulty firmly, without fear or discouragement.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Not everyone is courageous by nature. But whether we are bold or reticent, God calls leaders to be of good courage and not to capitulate to fear. Such a call to courage would be rather pointless if nobody feared anything. Because fear is a real part of life, God gives us the Holy Spirit, who fills us with power. But we must let the power do its work, and not fear.
— J. Oswald Sanders
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
— JRR Tolkien
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
— Dale Carnegie
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
— Dale Carnegie