Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.
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.
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.
I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.
Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.
Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.
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