Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

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

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.'

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.

Anger as well as love casts out fear.

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

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

Sometimes being afraid can show more strength than being fearless.

In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered, courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it's choosing to act in spite of the fear. You could say that without fear, you can't have genuine courage.

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

But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

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.

Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.

I don't feel fear anymore, in any form.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

The important thing about "brave" is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified.

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.'

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.

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

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.