Juliet Marillier Quotes

Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.

Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Fear is an opportunity for courage.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally. "No," Sunny answered. "Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.

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

I like to do things that frighten me. When I’m afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling... All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, ‘I should do it. If I don’t do it, no one will do it for me.

Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

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

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified when they diagnosed me with cancer in 1994. I was terrified when my son used to drive too fast. But I do believe in the fact that fear is not an option, so I always try to face it and not be afraid.

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

In great deeds something abides.

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.