Les Brown Quotes

Fear only become powerful when you give it your power.

Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Fear is trusting in your own power.

Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.

Facing your fears robs them of their power.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.

What is fear but courage's shadow?

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

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

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

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.

If something scares me, then I have to do it.

You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.'

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

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.

Fear the vulture, and the vulture will come. Fear nothing, and you are the vulture.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

I think operating in a mode of fear, and operating from a mode of fear, is not going to get us anywhere, as a people, or me, as a person. So I don't operate from that place.

I think it's okay to be afraid, but it's not okay to let it rule your life.

Fear may fill our world, but it doesn’t have to fill our hearts.

We find our voice, we lose our voice, we retrieve it, honor it, and hopefully, learn how to share it with others and stand in the center of our power. Translation is a theme. Fear and courage are a theme.

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.

Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.