David Gemmell Quotes

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.

I don't think fear can be abolished.

Fear and hatred can be the things that drive you. I don't always think of fear as a bad thing, it gives you fight-or-flight.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

You need fear to create, to live.

I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it.

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.'

Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.

Fear is the root of all courage.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.