George S. Patton Quotes

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.

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

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

There is nothing to fear as much as fear.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.

I have no fear of anyone.

I think I'm a pretty brave girl, but I wouldn't say I'm fearless.

In my past, it looked like I could get into trouble in Russia - but I was not afraid then, and I'm not afraid now. Fear paralyses you and doesn't let you go forward.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

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.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I think it's good that I get scared because, if you never get scared, you don't have any need for guts.