Diane von Furstenberg Quotes

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

I try to show that I have no fear. When you grow up hungry, you're not afraid of anything.

I need to be able to face things.

What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.

… the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There's no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time.

Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.

The minute I think 'Oh God, I don't want to do this because I'm scared,' is the moment I have to do something, whatever it is.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

I do not fear it: I have been there.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

Without fear there cannot be courage.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.

The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.

Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.