Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.

There's nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.

I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.

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.

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

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.

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

Change takes courage.

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.

Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.

Always question your fear, Anh. there's almost never a good reason to be scared.

I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide, a sin.

Fear is the mind-killer.

...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

No hero is above fear.