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

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the future.

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

Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear; only a fool has no fear. Courage is seeing the fear and continuing to proceed.

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

Courage is not the absence of fear; it’s going ahead despite the fear.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Only fools have no fear.
Rather, courage is the intellectual mastery of fear by understanding
the true risks and opportunities of the situation and keeping those
things in balance

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

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