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Quotes About Adversity

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.
~ Seth Godin
The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Fear is not negative. We should overcome all our fears and this in turn would make us stronger. As soon as we overcome our fears we can face any challenge.
~ Gabriela Isler
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?
~ Natalie Dormer
That which you fear the most will meet you half way.
~ Victoria Williams
Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan.
~ Sam Snead
Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.
~ Benjamin Carson
I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.
~ George H. W. Bush
FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying
~ Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.
~ Mark Zupan
O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.
~ Boman Irani
There's always fear. Always fear. Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying to you. Because this can all change tomorrow.
~ Donald Faison
The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.
~ Francine Pascal
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
~ Francis Bacon
Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.
~ Francois Fenelon
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.
~ William Wordsworth
Sometimes fear comes, not before the battle or even in the midst of the battle, but after we have won the victory.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
Failure is an option, fear is not.
~ James Cameron
We must never, in any age or circumstance, let fear and the father of fear (Satan himself) divert us from our faith and faithful living.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland