Lee Child Quotes

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.

When you face terror, you have to meet it right on the ground.

The sea hates a coward.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.

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.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

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.

The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.

But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

I like to do something I fear.

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

Shoot you coward, you’re going to kill a man.

Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it.

I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.” I stare at him for a second. I can’t help it. To me there’s a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

When you 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.'

"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."