Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

No human is completely fearless.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

People who are scared don't live life.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

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

My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

A lot of guys... they want to take the big shot, and they talk about it because they're scared of it. You never heard me talk about it. You heard a lot of guys talk about it. But you don't have to talk about it, because if you have the confidence in yourself, and your team believes in you, you don't fear anything. You don't fear losing.

If you want to change things, it requires bravery.

When I was younger, I never thought I'd be brave enough to go and play abroad.

I'm not scared to sing songs. I'm not scared to walk out the front door and make a mistake.

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.