Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

Even the biggest heroes turn into cowards when they get tired.

Even in my bravest moment, I am a coward.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

If it's about work or sports or politics or women, we have no problem sharing our opinions, but if it's about our insecurities or our struggles, our fear of failure, then it's almost like we become paralyzed.

My personal pride is not strong enough to make me brave. But I don't know why I equate being brave with fighting.

Every day, I walk the streets with my head held high, but deep down inside, sometimes I'm like, 'I just hope I can get through the day.'

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

No hero is above fear.

I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.

There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

I wish I were braver, although I try.

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier. Put them at a table together—what do you get? The sum of their fears.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain.