Gayle Forman Quotes

I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

We grow fearless by walking into our fears.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

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

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

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.'

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

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.

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.

Always question your fear, Anh. there's almost never a good reason to be scared.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

You can't have bravery without fear...

Without fear there cannot be courage.