Joseph Heller Quotes

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.

I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

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.

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.

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

If I'm afraid of something, I'll deal with it and get past it.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

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

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

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

Fear is the root of all courage.

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.