Jim Butcher Quotes

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

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

You can't avoid fear. No magic potion will take it away. And you can't wait for motivation to get you going. To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!

The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

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

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.

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

The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

Learning how to face fear really makes you invincible because you stop being scared.

I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.