William Faulkner Quotes

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory.

You don't actually need confidence or good self-esteem to be successful. You just need to have courage.

Fear is the root of all courage.

We grow fearless by walking into our fears.

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

Fear aint in the heart of me, i learned just do it, you get courage from your fears right after you go through it.

One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.

All fear has ever done is hold me back. I have so many things I want to accomplish in my life. For myself and for the world. Fear is useless; it just gets in the way of accomplishing everything Overcome fear today and and confront one of your phobias.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

Shatter all your fear.

When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person. I have to will myself not to hole up in my house and read my life away.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'