Audre Lorde Quotes

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

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.

'Dream' is about having fears and doing your best to embrace them no matter how strenuous the grip is.

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.

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.

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

You have to be willing to endure the discomfort, the doubts and unknowing, you somehow find the courage to walk through your doubts and the difficult times because you are living the life you are meant to live.

You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold on to your chosen direction, your discipline, your prayer, your work, your guides, and trust that one day love will have conquered enough of you that even the most fearful part will allow love to cast out all fear.

Get yourself prepared, educationally and emotionally, and develop mental toughness. Don't ever give up.

Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

Mental toughness is essential to success.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.

In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.

Life is not easy for anyone. Sometimes you don't see the challenges on the outside, but every single one of us has both those and everything that goes on inside as well. Give it your all. Dare to be all you can be.

Don't let your failures define you.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.

We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.

If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.