John McCain Quotes

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Action conquers fear.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.

I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.

You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

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.

Whenever I'm terrified of anything, I jump to it.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

It's better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. It is the mastery of fear.

To imagine a better life for yourself and your family and to leave behind all that is familiar requires a special kind of courage.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

I came across the idea of running towards the things that frighten you. Once you go and do it, you realise that the fear of it is far more powerful than actually doing it.

I am not brave. I am very weak. I am trying to overcome my problems. I do cry, I do break but I think that's normal.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.