Janet Reno Quotes

I try never to be governed by fear; that's how I choose things.

Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back

Fear's contagious, but so is courage.

I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

I never take counsel of my fears.

Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

If you're living your life in fear, then you're just not living.

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, "Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and I'm going to do it anyhow," that that's really the way to have a satisfying life moving forward. I think I had that kind of fearlessness even as a young person. It wasn't tempered by experience or wisdom, but it took me a long way.

Bravery is the solution to regret.

I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.” I stare at him for a second. I can’t help it. To me there’s a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

Without fear there cannot be courage.

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.