Tami Hoag Quotes

Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

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 you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

I need to be able to face things.

Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

'Dream' is about having fears and doing your best to embrace them no matter how strenuous the grip is.

I didn't need to get knocked down to know the fortitude that I have in me.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

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

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

We're stronger than we realize.

In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.