Roger Bannister Quotes

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

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

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

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

Every game, you've got to play with no fear.

So I don't really suffer too badly from fears - I'm quite happy to engender them in other people though!

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!

The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

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

I remember my choir teacher in high school told me, 'When in doubt, sing loud.' I'm a terrible singer, but I always auditioned for the musicals, and would get cast in them because I really would just put it all out there. That was really good advice, and I think it works for everything, not just acting.

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.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

It's better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

If you are scared to go the brink, you are lost.

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.

We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that's wrong.

I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it.