Rick Yancey Quotes

I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki

Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them

When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

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

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.

To me fearless isn't not having fears, it's not that you're not afraid of anything. I think that being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.

The moment you conquer one fear is the minute you conquer many fears.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

It's nice to do something about something that scares you rather than just run from it and hope that someone saves you. I like seeing strong female characters and somebody who doesn't run away screaming when scared, but confronts the monsters.

I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.

There's nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

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.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

Of all the things I am and am not, I know that I'm not afraid.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.

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

We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy-mate rial or spiritual. We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.