Confronting Fear Quotes

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.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse.

So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have — and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth — you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear...

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered, courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it's choosing to act in spite of the fear. You could say that without fear, you can't have genuine courage.

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not.

But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted."I know. Fear is only fear, though.""And somehow you live without it.""No," he corrected her. "You live with it.

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run to my friends, my work, and my distractions so that I can forget my nothingness and make myself believe that I am worth something. The task is to persevere in my solitude, to stay in my cell until all my seductive visitors get tired of pounding on my door and leave me alone. The wisdom of the desert is that the confrontation with our own frightening nothingness forces us to surrender ourselves totally and unconditionally to the Lord Jesus Christ.

The trick is not escaping your fear, but confronting it and allowing it to drive and teach you. Only by getting to the bottom of your fears can you find their valuable lessons and move forward stronger than before.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.