Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.

Courage Is A Resistance To Fear, Mastery Of Fear – Not Absence Of Fear.

Source: Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, Chapter 12 (1894). Complete Sentence: Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! — incomparably the bravest of all Read More…

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Source: Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living (1960). Complete Sentence: You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” …You must do the Read More…

Scared is what you’re feeling brave is what you’re doing.

Source: Room: A Novel (2010) by Emma Donoghue.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Source: Long Walk to Freedom (1995) by Nelson Mandela.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Source: Quoted in K. Patrick Malone, Inside a Haunted Mind (2008) Page: 167 Note: James Neil Hollingworth, He wrote under the pseudonym Ambrose Redmoon.