Jim Butcher Quotes

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

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.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?

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.

To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.

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

I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

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

The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

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

Courage is fear on its knees.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'