Gayle Rankin Quotes

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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

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

If you're afraid to do something then you're probably never going to achieve it.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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

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

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I like to do something I fear.

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

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

Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.

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

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

I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

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

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

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

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

If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.