Arnold Palmer Quotes

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!

If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear.

Some would argue the opposite: that with better pitches you should be able to express yourself, a bit like Kevin Pietersen does. Looking back, I wish I had been a bit more like that. But I always had a fear of failure, a fear of getting out, so I tried to eliminate risk from my game.

When I was younger, I barely talked. I was scared of people. I had to learn how to cultivate that confidence.

...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.

Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.

I will live to make myself not feared.

So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?

When I do overcome my fear - what's going to happen is that I'm going to want a plane.

I wanted to use a totally different part of my brain. It's quite scary at times. I went for learning to fly because it was most difficult of all. The insurance man just sat there and licked his lips when I told him.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

I'm motivated by fear...a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something.

I used to be very afraid of flying. It would creep me out and make me very tense and very uncomfortable, and I would sweat or even cry. I was very, very scared of dying, but I'm not anymore. Fears need to be indulged, in order to exist. I don't have much time to indulge in any fears.

My fear delivered one of the great lessons of my life: That someone without fear can’t push himself. He can’t get better. He can’t transform negatives into positives. He can’t open his world to creativity and invention, or even progress.

Fear is priceless education.

The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.

Once you slay one fear, you can conquer many fears.

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

If you're afraid of something, you definitely have to try to tackle it.

It's never fun to be scared [about stage fright] but I think that it is important and it's healthy to always push yourself.

The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action

Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.