Rick Riordan Quotes

I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.

Cold, hungry, scared as hell inside, but too damn brave to admit it.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

There is nothing wrong with being afraid - but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.

She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone. Sometimes she feels frightened. Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But she’s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

I say I am stronger than fear.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Never let your face show how hard they are taking your ass.

My personal pride is not strong enough to make me brave. But I don't know why I equate being brave with fighting.

My biggest fear is fear itself. I never want to be afraid of doing something I want.

I am not brave. I am very weak. I am trying to overcome my problems. I do cry, I do break but I think that's normal.

If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.

I think it's okay to be afraid, but it's not okay to let it rule your life.

I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.

I prayed all the way up that hill yesterday, he said softly. Not for you to stay; I didna think that would be right. I prayed I'd be strong enough to send ye away. He shook his head, still gazing up the hill, a faraway look in his eyes. I said 'Lord, if I've never had courage in my life before, let me have it now. Let me be brave enough not to fall on my knees and beg her to stay.' He pulled his eyes away from the cottage and smiled briefly at me. Hardest thing I ever did, Sassenach.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.