Sylvia Plath Quotes

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

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.

Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

That's the way to go. People say: 'Oh, he doesn't want to come back, he's scared,' and it's to play with your brain, to play with your mind. I'm not scared of nobody. I'm not scared of no human being. I'm scared to fight, every time I fight I'm scared, but I'll bite into my mouthpiece and I'll walk the walk.

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.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

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.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

The sea hates a coward.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

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

Without fear there cannot be courage.

Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

I ain't scared of the fall / I've felt the ground before.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Courage is caution overcome.