Jason Reynolds Quotes

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

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.

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

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

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

Whenever I'm terrified of anything, I jump to it.

I don't think fear can be abolished.

Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it.

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.

I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.

I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.

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

I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.