Francesca Lia Block Quotes

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

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.

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

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

I have overcome most of my fears.

I don't feel fear anymore, in any form.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

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

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.

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.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

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

A warrior never worries about his fear.

The moment you conquer one fear is the minute you conquer many fears.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

The majority of the things that I do, I'm actually afraid to do, but you just have to have a positive attitude and block out any fears that you have.

Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.