Pema Chodron Quotes

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.

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.

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and if there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.

Courage is not the absence of fear...

The important thing about "brave" is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified.

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

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

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.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.

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.

Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.

To me fearless isn't not having fears, it's not that you're not afraid of anything. I think that being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.

Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

Courage comes from acting courageously on a day-to-day basis.

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo