Courage is doing your duty in the face of fear.
Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that no weapon, no jeopardy, no natural cataclysm, has ever been able to inspire until now. And now here it is running icily through him in the hot Chinese noon. Fear for the thing he loves, the only fear that can ever wholly cow the reckless and the brave.
The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.
Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.
Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the stations of Majesty, Beauty, Sublimeness, Grandeur, and Holiness. . . . He to whom the mysteries of La ilaha illa'llah are revealed draws near to God, and his worship of God becomes sincere. He does not turn to anyone but to Him, nor does he have hope in or fear other than Him, nor does he see harm or benefit except as coming from Him. He abandons whosoever is not He and rids himself of inward and outward associationism (shirk).
If I stay in action, I won't live in fear.
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
When I was in that danger. . . I felt like I was shaken awake. . . after everything she made me feel. . . I made a decision and went to sleep. Do you know what that's like - trying to go to sleep, and lose yourself in the hopes of burying the worst fears in your life?. . . I wasn't in love with the past. I was terrified of my own future.
If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness. . . . Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.
Your courage to do what's right has to be greater than your fear of getting hurt
