Will Smith Quotes

Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not.

I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'

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

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

Never run when you're scared. Rule 7.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case of an emergency.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

When I'm scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover.

That's part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?

As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.

By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.

Why should he who is scared be careful?

We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared