John Patrick Shanley Quotes

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

Courage is not the absence of fear...

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

The fear that you come to a show called 'American Horror Story' with is yours. That being said, I'm glad people are afraid, and I hope that I'm contributing to their fear. I'm really not afraid of my own darkness anymore. I'm not afraid of what I'm capable of.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

I rehearsed 50. I kind of stared at it a long time. I wasn't going to let it terrify me.

I had paralyzing fear as a kid. I couldn't watch horror movies, nothing. The funny thing is I got so sick of being afraid that I started doing it deliberately and instead of being afraid in my bed I would sit up on my bed and say, 'ok, come on, show yourself, do it.'

The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

To try to be brave is to be brave.

Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

Courage is more important than confidence

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.

The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

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

What is fear but courage's shadow?

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.