What People Say About Fear and Courage

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. -Ambrose Redmoon

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear breeds fear. -Byron Janis

The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll

All serious daring starts from within. -Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. -Babe Ruth

Often fear of one evil leads us into a worse. -Nicholas Boileau-Despresaux

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -Eddie Rickenbacher

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. -Aesop

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. -Don Quixote

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

No passion so effectually robs the mond of all its poers of acting and reasoning as fear. -Edmund Burke

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. -Shirley MacLaine

FEAR is just a four letter word -Anon

If you are dealing with fears and insecurities from old head programs, have compassion for yourself. Just love your insecurities, fears and resentments. Release and forgive them as they come up. Judging, beating or repressing insecurities just gives them power. Then you have a pattern that never gets resolved. Recognize that your real security is built from your relationship with your own heart. -Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart