Greta Gerwig Quotes

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.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom.

People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

If you don't stand up to your fears, have bravery, loyalty, and you don't have friends, you'll never win. You'll never feel better about yourself.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

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.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

Courage is largely habits and self confidence.

Courage is the most important of the virtues because it is the one that makes all the others possible.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

'Oz' means strength - and it also means courage.

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.

I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.