Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.

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

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

As I like to say, take the shot, even if your knees are shaking.

Even if you feel fear, you still have to go ahead and do what you believe in.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Whenever I'm terrified of anything, I jump to it.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

In order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

I came across the idea of running towards the things that frighten you. Once you go and do it, you realise that the fear of it is far more powerful than actually doing it.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

If I stay in action, I won't live in fear.

We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.

Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.