Dan Rather Quotes

When you're fearful, you stumble.

Everything worth doing starts with being scared.

Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.

You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages.

I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things.

Sail against the wind.

We were very scared. Going to America was almost like going to the moon.

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

You don't want to leave 'what if's in life.

I have always faced challenges in my life.

My whole life, I have had to fight.