Colin Powell Quotes

Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight. That's all brave is, boy, when you come right down to it, not lettin' the fear get you so turned around you start doin' stupid things, instead of what you know you ought to do.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.

I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

We'll tell fear it can come along with us in our minivan, okay? But we'll just tell fear it can't drive. Sometimes we'll tell it to not even talk. Like when we tell our kids, 'Enough. No words.' We're going to play the quiet game with fear. Fear is not the boss of us.

Fear mustn't take control of us.

Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.

I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.

Think of fear as a 2-year-old child who doesn't want to go grocery shopping with you. Because you must buy groceries, you'll just have to take the two year old with you. Fear is no different. In other words, acknowledge that fear exists but don't let it keep you from doing important tasks.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

If you're having a bad day the main thing on the mental side is realizing that I'm having a bad day and thinking about why and then just kind of re-prioritizing and saying, "I'm going to let myself have this bad day, but tomorrow I'm going to get back on track." That's pretty much it. We all have them. You do have to let yourself have them and then go within and figure out why you're having it and prevent it from happening again.

Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.

Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, “All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.

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

Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

I give myself strength by staying away from any music.