Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

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

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

When I feel fear, I train myself to move forward.

I fear everyone. But I play without fear.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

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 do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.

As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.'

I need to be able to face things.

In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.