Lloyd Alexander Quotes

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

It's better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?

When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.

Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.

If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.

Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world.

What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that.

Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.

I think we need to grow in our self-assurance that is not scared of being challenged, that the truth we uphold can stand up to the closest possible scrutiny.

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.