“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”

Meg Cabot The Princess Diaries

“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

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

James Neil Hollingworth (1933–1996) talent manager

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

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

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.”

Raymond E. Feist book The King's Buccaneer

“We don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.”

Arianna Huffington (1950) Greek-American author and syndicated columnist

“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