Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

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.

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

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.

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 don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

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

Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

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

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; in enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not abandon it to his enemy.

You make progress; then you get courage to make more.

Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.