William Faulkner Quotes

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

Fear is a powerful beast. But we can learn to ride it.

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

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.

Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

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

You can't avoid fear. No magic potion will take it away. And you can't wait for motivation to get you going. To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.