Michael Moore Quotes

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.

In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

Fear mustn't take control of us.

Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice.

"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."

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.

I will always have fears, but I need not be my fears, for I have other places within myself from which to speak and act.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.

Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.

Let's not be afraid of anything that can't really hurt us.

Danger is very real but fear is a choice.

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.