Veronica Roth Quotes

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

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

Once you slay one fear, you can conquer many fears.

The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you.

If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own.

We must stop feeling fear.

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.

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

Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.

Fear is not negative. We should overcome all our fears and this in turn would make us stronger. As soon as we overcome our fears we can face any challenge.

...in your living room, you're scared shitless. And that's just where the power structure wants you. In the middle of a riot, I've never found anybody who's chickenshit. The way to eliminate fear is to do what you're most afraid of.

My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

Learning how to face fear really makes you invincible because you stop being scared.

Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.

best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!

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

But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.

Fear only become powerful when you give it your power.

The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.

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.

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