Brian O'Driscoll Quotes

Fear doesn't enter into my vocabulary. Fear is the gateway to the next step in my development.

Any time I push through a fear, I'm proud of that.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences I've had, that need to be transformed.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.

I'm not the kind of person to sit and dwell for ages on something that happened. I go through something, I experience it, I try to learn from it, and I move forward.

Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

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.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

There's nothing that anyone could say about me that would hurt my feelings.

I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.

What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.

If you want your dream more than you have to have people's affirmation, that's how you break through your border bullies.

Some people's developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something.