Ransom Riggs Quotes

Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.

Even if you feel fear, you still have to go ahead and do what you believe in.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

Before I was a champion, I failed, and I was afraid.

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

Don't let fear stop you. Don't give up because you are paralyzed by insecurity or overwhelmed by the odds, because in giving up, you give up hope. Understand that failure is a process in life, that only in trying can you enrich yourself and have the possibility of moving forward. The greatest obstacle in life is fear and giving up because of it.

To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.

If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review, when I publish a book...then, I think of my grandfather. My grandfather was this strong, tough Basque who would never bend....What would he do? Well, he would go ahead, close his eyes, and drive forward. You do it and the spirit that is within you....is there.

When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.

Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.

The greatest sin is fear and giving up.

You can't avoid fear. No magic potion will take it away. And you can't wait for motivation to get you going. To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.

All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn't prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.

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.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.