Mary Pope Osborne Quotes

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

There's nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.

Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

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

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

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

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

I do not fear it: I have been there.

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

You can't have bravery without fear...

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

I've never thought of myself as being particularly brave - I used to be frightened of the dark when I was small. And I'm not very good with dead rats and things like that. But I face what has to be faced and I hope as best as I'm able.

Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

Better to face the bear than run from it.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.