John Hillcoat Quotes

But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Fear is the root of all courage.

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and if there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear's contagious, but so is courage.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

Life begins where fear ends.

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.

When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

I refuse to live my life in fear.

Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

My helmet is off; I'm not afraid anymore.