Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

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.

The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.

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.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom.

You make progress; then you get courage to make more.

I was a child among the lions. Now I want to be one of those lions.

I meet my fears with excitement. They are an excuse to be courageous.

It feels good to show some courage.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.

If you don't stand up to your fears, have bravery, loyalty, and you don't have friends, you'll never win. You'll never feel better about yourself.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

I want to be fearless.

What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

My biggest fear is fear itself. I never want to be afraid of doing something I want.