John C. Maxwell Quotes

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review, when I publish a book...then, I think of my grandfather. My grandfather was this strong, tough Basque who would never bend....What would he do? Well, he would go ahead, close his eyes, and drive forward. You do it and the spirit that is within you....is there.

Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step. Don't give in to fear, do it afraid.

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

Don't let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of. I promise you, nothing will go wrong. But if you live by your fears, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong and you won't even have done the 'Funky Chicken'.

Even if you feel fear, you still have to go ahead and do what you believe in.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.