Debbie Ford Quotes

To get to this place of a warrior’s courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter the self-image we created to affirm our story.

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.

Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

The moment you fear, you are nobody.

Whenever there is fear, there is opportunity. When there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be no Resistance.

When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review, when I publish a book...then, I think of my grandfather. My grandfather was this strong, tough Basque who would never bend....What would he do? Well, he would go ahead, close his eyes, and drive forward. You do it and the spirit that is within you....is there.

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel.

I completely lost everything, but I gained everything because I lost the fear.

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact.

If you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out of there.

Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

Fear only become powerful when you give it your power.

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

Don't let fear stop you. Don't give up because you are paralyzed by insecurity or overwhelmed by the odds, because in giving up, you give up hope. Understand that failure is a process in life, that only in trying can you enrich yourself and have the possibility of moving forward. The greatest obstacle in life is fear and giving up because of it.

Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.

Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

Cowards hide [...] but warriors lie and wait [...] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.

We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.

A man that is afraid is never a man.