Alfred Adler Quotes

Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite warnings, despite hazards of all kinds, to attack the task at hand. Often, it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

Courage is more important than confidence

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.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

It feels good to show some courage.

Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

I am sufficiently wary of dangerous situations, but I'm not scared of having a go.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.

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

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

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