Eddie the Eagle Quotes

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

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.

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.

In real life I have conquered my worst fears by fighting and beating bigger wrestlers in dangal. So I am not afraid of anything.

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.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

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.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

During the climb, I never get afraid. But you can't lose your fear - it is really important. If you lose it, you are going to die.

If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.

I could never say that fear really gets to me. I'm not one of those fighters like Nigel Benn who says, 'I thrive on fear.' I walk through fear.