Lauren Bacall Quotes

I'm not in this sport to take punishment.

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

I've never been a good patient. I'm not good with pain. It is not for me.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

The nerves were so badly compressed that I had no feeling on the palm of my hand. I mean, you could have pounded a nail through my hand and I wouldn't have been able to feel it.

I do not like getting hit. I can take a hit, but I don't want to damage my brain if I don't have to.

What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges

Being scared is normal. My technique for erasing it is facing it. Be afraid and brave. Be nervous and courageous. The first few minutes of being scared is your test to see if you're really serious about reaching a goal. Push through anxiety and come out victorious. Fear is just a test. Honor the feeling. Know it's there. Know it's temporary. Face it to erase it.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

Cold, hungry, scared as hell inside, but too damn brave to admit it.

I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles; it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave.

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.

But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.

At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it.

Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.

One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.