Malcolm X Quotes

The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

We can't live in a place of fear.

Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

Fear shuts off possibilities. The first thing that kicks in when you're reacting with fear... This is what I love about Roosevelt's quote, "There's nothing to fear but fear itself."

There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

Better to die than to live in fear.

Life begins where fear ends.

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

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.

Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.

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

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

I refuse to live my life in fear.

I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

We can’t save ourselves from fear by seeking safety, because safety always means there’s something to be safe from-in other words, something to fear. The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back

Beneath every excuse lies a fear. Practice being fearless.

I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.