Audie Murphy Quotes

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

I don't go to scary movies because they scare me. But I can be in them because I know whether I'm living or dying.

Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.

Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.

The difference between a regular person and a warrior is not that you're not afraid. Hell, I was afraid. I don't want to go into combat with anybody who is not afraid because it's healthy to have fear. But what makes a warrior is the guy who can control that fear, channel it, and actually use it as a weapon.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, it's something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

That's part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?

Keep a meter on your fear. Fear can cripple you.

A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it.

In 'The Darkest Minds,' Zu's trauma manifests in her choosing to remain silent. It's her one small way she can feel in control of her otherwise uncontrollable situation.

Of the times that I've been able to overcome a fear, it's been by making it something that I can understand, that I can hold on to - just something that's more tangible.

If I'm afraid of something, I'll deal with it and get past it.

Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.

I didn’t want the attacks to affect me. I don’t believe you should be led by fear.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.