Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Never run when you're scared. Rule 7.

When I am scared of something, I run towards it, instead of away from it.

there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

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

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

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

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.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.

Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?

Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

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

I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.

Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.