Cheri Huber Quotes

Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.

Since fear is such a primal reaction, making the choice to move forward despite fear is an evolved decision that transcends our animal nature.

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.

By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.

If you're afraid of something, you definitely have to try to tackle it.

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. "Does nothing frighten you, sule?" "Actually, pretty much everything here does—I'm just good at ignoring the fact that I'm terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you'll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.

No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.

Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness

There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.

Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.