Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.

The difference between a regular person and a warrior is not that you're not afraid. Hell, I was afraid. I don't want to go into combat with anybody who is not afraid because it's healthy to have fear. But what makes a warrior is the guy who can control that fear, channel it, and actually use it as a weapon.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.

It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.

I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

We require our fighters to be ready hurricanes, on-call combat machines. We want them held easily in check, and we expect light-switch control over their aggression…. We vaguely hope their anger does not spill over, or come home.

If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.

You have to listen to the anthems, allow the emotion to come, but then need to snap back into the match and your specific task.

Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And what you've got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that's a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.

When I feel fear, I train myself to move forward.