Marsha's Musings: Courage and Fear

Today at physical therapy we were talking about courage & fear. This conversation got me thinking on courage and fear. I did a Google search and here are some quotes on courage and fear for you to think about. Enjoy!

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


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. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894


Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker


Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb

Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. ~Irisa Hail

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~Dorothy Bernard

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~George Smith Patton

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ~David Ben-Gurion

Courage is knowing what not to fear. ~Plato

My favorite is: Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~Dorothy Bernard