I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.