Anna Quindlen Quotes

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

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

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

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.

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

I think I'm known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It's not that I'm not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don't back away - I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid.

To me fearless isn't not having fears, it's not that you're not afraid of anything. I think that being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.

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.

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

I dare to do things - that's how I survive.

I want to be fearless.

I do life fearlessly.

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

I'm always challenging myself, looking forward I'm not afraid of anything.

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.

Every time I feel fearful of something now, I do it.

I'm not afraid to fail - at all.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

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.

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.

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

I always choose to do the thing that scares me.

You do not have to be fearless, just don't let fear stop you.