“Sit with closed eyes in the early morning. Meditate on courage, the opposite of fear, for half an hour. Think of the advantages of courage and the disadvantages of fear.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“It always demands a far greater degree of courage for an individual to oppose an organized movement than to let himself be carried along with the stream — individual courage, that is, a variety of courage that is dying out in these times of progressive organization and mechanization. During the war practically the only courage I ran across was mass courage, the courage that comes of being one of a herd, and anyone who examines this phenomenon more closely will find it to be compounded of some very strange elements: a great deal of vanity, a great deal of fear — yes, fear of staying behind, fear of being sneered at fear of independent action, and fear, above all, of taking up a stand against the mass enthusiasm of one's fellows.”

Stefan Zweig book Beware of Pity

“Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.”

Dan Millman (1946) American self help writer

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear.”

Pat Riley (1945) American basketball player, coach, executive

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“Courage is fear on its knees.”

Beverly Lewis (1949) American writer

“Without fear there cannot be courage.”

Christopher Paolini (1983) American author

“Fear is the root of all courage”

Vivian Stanshall (1943–1995) English musician, artist and author

“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose