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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that's wrong.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.