“It’s okay to be afraid, Jo. It’s what keeps us alive. But falling to that fear is what will get you killed.”— Brandy Nacole Related Quotes “I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”– Thomas Jefferson “Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers’ incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?”– Anna Quindlen “No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.”— G.K. Chesterton