Holly Lisle Quotes

To me fearless isn't not having fears, it's not that you're not afraid of anything. I think that being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

I will walk where failures fear to walk.

It feels good to show some courage.

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

I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, "Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and I'm going to do it anyhow," that that's really the way to have a satisfying life moving forward. I think I had that kind of fearlessness even as a young person. It wasn't tempered by experience or wisdom, but it took me a long way.

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

I want to be fearless.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

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

No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you

Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.

Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!

I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step. Don't give in to fear, do it afraid.

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

I think I'm known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It's not that I'm not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don't back away - I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid.