If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

I’m seventeen today and dressed for a party. But I can’t move. I can’t think, much less move. I can’t breathe, much less think. This is the moment when my life will change forever.

No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional...

She looked at him like it physically hurt her not to speak, and yet she stayed silent.

What do you fear, lady?” [Aragorn] asked. “A cage,” [Éowyn] said. “To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

You destruct the attention the world gives you when you mistrust your own ability

Where the Magic Awaits: The Worst Becomes the Absolute Best

First, do what you fear the most.

A lot of the fear was fueled by misconceptions, … Some people thought bodies were going to be burned so diseases could be spread through the air. None of that is going to happen.

All primitive people are frightened of owls,’ said Harley. ‘The villagers here are scared to death of the gufo. Birds of ill omen. If they see one, they think they’ll die. But they never do....

One sure way to excel in life, be fabulous and fantastic is to know your fears and deal with them with fierce.

For the moment, everything had disappeared: the church, the battle, the screams and shouts and the rumble of limber wheels along the rutted road through Freehold. There wasn’t anything but her and him, and he...

He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is...

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we’re afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

The day I became a writerit wasn’t the day a whore paid me in sexin exchange for one of my bookswhich happened often and more and moreas time went onit wasn’t the first time someone...

Oh, my sweet summer child,” Old Nan said quietly, “what do you know of fear?Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feetdeep and the ice wind comes howling...

Ne treba se bojati ljudi.- Pa ja se i ne bojim ljudi, nego onog što je neljudsko u njma.

Since there is no one like God, therefore all people should fear Him—in other words, dread His power and be devoted to His person.

I’m not afraid of you, Ghleanna. I’ve never been afraid of you. To be quite honest. . I think you’re amazing. I always have. Since the first time you ignored me.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Many people do not want to forfeit their fears. Fear is the only tool they know.

I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong and my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave….If there’s no feeling of fear then there’s no need for courage.

You cannot successfully follow Jesus Christ unless you learn how to overcome fear through his name.John 14:1-4.

She said…she said don’t be scared, we wasn’t born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world.

Man’s inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man. The love of God means wasted love. ‘For God and Country’ means a divided allegiance—a 50...

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to...

Your eyes,’ Asha grunted as he looked at him briefly. ‘Turn them off.’ He clicked his fingers and Blitzen’s eyes blinked and when they opened only the whites of his eyes were visible, all he...

Concha would cry when she found out I was dead, she should have no taste for life for months afterward. But I was still the one who was going to die. I thought of her...

… there’s fear that keeps you safe, and fear that warns you, and then there’s fear of another sort. The kind that makes you turn on your friends, that irises the world down to one...

…nameless hideous monsters are freaking terrifying. You always fear what you don’t know, what you don’t understand, and the first step to having understanding of something is to know what to call it. It’s a...

I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more.

Faint heart ne’er won fair lady.

and everyone wants to read the poem we’re afraid to write.

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.

If you believe it, it happens. If you don’t, it doesn’t. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands.

He swallowed hard and looked deep into my eyes so intensely, I tried hard not to look away. I didn’t want him to see how mildly scared of him I was. I touched the hand...

Cowards hide […] but warriors lie and wait […] the only difference is whether you’re motivated by fear or purpose.

That’s interesting,” Bitterblue said. “You think a conscience requires fear?

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.

Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from memory, as the fear and the necessity became abstract. And only her own...

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.

True love is jealousy in disguise: A man cannot restrict his lover from going to the club because he hates her, he actually hates the men who would come around and touch her.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

As a species, tragedy dwells within us all. We push it to the back of our thoughts, but it is never so far gone that it cannot return, crashing and writhing into our souls: a...

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

My goal is not to frighten you. My goal is to make you fight your fears.

He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc…