Robert Duvall Quotes

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

The work I like to do is the work I'm most afraid of.

Fear is the root of all courage.

Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.

I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going.

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Whenever I'm terrified of anything, I jump to it.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

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

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?