Max Brooks Quotes

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice.

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.

I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.

If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear; his brave back would go a-begging.

Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

Better to face the bear than run from it.

I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

If you're afraid of something, you definitely have to try to tackle it.

Danger is very real but fear is a choice.

When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.

There's nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.

The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

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

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

I tend to go toward things that make me afraid.