Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

Real guts are nothing more than developing your inner voice to the point where it is louder and stronger than the voice of your fear.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

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

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

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

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom.

You make progress; then you get courage to make more.

In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory.