Courage Quote by Samantha van Leer

“...courage wasn’t something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn’t a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you…

— Jodi Picoult

“Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own.”

— Michelle Cohen Corasanti

“I read once that courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than that fear.”

— Lisa Tawn Bergren

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act despite it.”

— Desmond Tutu

“Isn't that what love is? Being scared, then being brave, because of that one person?”

— Winna Efendi

“Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on in spite of it.”

— Scott Turow

“learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's the choice that something else is greater than that fear.”

— Theadore Roosevelt

“She realised now what courage actually was.  It wasn’t about not being afraid, no—it was more about feeling that fear and doing it anyway. ”

— Harmony Kent

“Courage isn't the absence of fear but the willingness to proceed in the face of it.”

— Niurka

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the determination to control and overcome it.”

— D William Manley

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.”

— John McCain