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“I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the wa...”
“Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be donethat's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.”
“Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]”
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself," Otto replied. "Oh, and a megalomaniacal headmaster, the world's deadliets assassin, giant mutated plant monsters, an international cartel of supervillains,...”
“Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart wh...”
“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”
“Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.”
“Face your fears or they will climb over your back.”
“But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.”
“.it was a brave mans fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?”
“I believe that courage is all too often mistakenly seen as the absence of fear. If you descend by rope from a cliff and are not fearful to some degree, you are either crazy or unaware. Courage is s...”
“To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.”
“To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.”
“Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for...”
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare...”
“I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.”
“I think fear is normal, Cade. Just don't let it win.”
“Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.”
