Mark Steyn Quotes

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

I refuse to live my life in fear.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do.

Beneath every excuse lies a fear. Practice being fearless.

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.

Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.

There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.

I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.

Life begins where fear ends.

Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear.

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

Every day I wake up like, "This might be my last day, and I'm not scared of it. I'm gonna go out there, do what I gotta do; I ain't gonna let nothing stop me." Nothing puts any fear in my heart. I'm never scared to bite my tongue about something, or never be scared to come out and speak about something - that's what I mean. Like, I ain't scared of death. What you gonna do to me?

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

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

I am never afraid of what I know.

Ignorance breeds fear.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.