Michael Ignatieff Quotes

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.

As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.

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

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.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

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

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

Fear is the root of all courage.

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

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.

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay.

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it.

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

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.

All fear has ever done is hold me back. I have so many things I want to accomplish in my life. For myself and for the world. Fear is useless; it just gets in the way of accomplishing everything Overcome fear today and and confront one of your phobias.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.