Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.