Lois Lowry Quotes

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.

It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things.

You've got to be brave.

Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

Sometimes if something scares me, I lean right into it . I’m not a brave person— I’m more of a fearless idiot.

One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.

Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

Boldness is a child of ignorance

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

Living is risking.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.