Steve Berry Quotes

Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.

You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much.

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.

You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.

It's been a very strong force for me over the years. I don't know exactly why. For some people, fear can be a very useful thing. They can use it to recognise there's something missing, and heal themselves. But fear can also destroy some people. I think I'm the first type of person. I'm pretty anxious, always thinking 'what if?' about the bad stuff.

Pressure feels sort of normal to me.

If someone says anything mean to me I just kind of brush it off.

Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

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.

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

I finally understand that it’s okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.