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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Karle Wilson Baker
It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live.
~ Sir Thomas Browne, in Religio Medici, section xliv
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.
~ Ruth Gordon
Courage is grace under pressure.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Courage is not limited to the battlefield. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like enduring pain when the room is empty or standing alone when you’re misunderstood.
~ Charles Swindoll
Fortes fortuna adiuvat. [Fortune favours the brave.]
~ Terence, in Phormio
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray, in The Four Georges
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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Karle Wilson Baker
If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.
~ Francis Chichester
Quem metuunt oderunt, quem quisque odit periise expetit. [Whom men fear, they hate; whom a man hates he wishes dead.]
~ Quintus Ennius, in Ex fabulis incertis
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
~ Kahlil Gibran
There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.
~Howard Hendricks
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The man bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
~ Talmud, Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah to 2, 3
Fear not tomorrow, God is already there.
~ Unknown
The fear of God can deliver from the fear of man.
~ Unknown
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