Lee Tergesen Quotes

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.

Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear.

I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.

So about this Fierce and Fearless award, honestly, I am often afraid. I was terrified when I lost my voice. But I've come to understand and listen to the fear. I walk towards it. I lean into it to find the information and things that it has to teach me - unless it says run, and then I run.

Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse.

To move past fear is a cliche.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

I tend to go toward things that make me afraid.

My biggest fear is fear itself. I never want to be afraid of doing something I want.

The minute I think 'Oh God, I don't want to do this because I'm scared,' is the moment I have to do something, whatever it is.

Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it.

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.

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.