“Be scared. You can't help that. But don’t be afraid. Ain’t nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.”
"The Bear” in The Saturday Evening Post (9 May 1942)
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“You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.”
"The time of his life", in The Guardian (7 June 2004)
“I am what they call a throttle man. You must not be scared of going too fast.”
Quoted in People magazine, 15 October 1990 https://people.com/archive/cover-story-another-tragedy-for-monaco-vol-34-no-15/
Source: Lord of the Flies (1954), Ch. 5: Beast from Water
Speech to the Third Army (1944)
Context: Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood. Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.