John Rzeznik Quotes

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.

I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding.

I came across the idea of running towards the things that frighten you. Once you go and do it, you realise that the fear of it is far more powerful than actually doing it.

Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.

Necessity does the work of courage.

I like to do something I fear.

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

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.

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.

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

I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.

If something scares me, then I have to do it.

You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

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

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

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